Eurasian Integration : Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism (Hardcover)

PART I: THE CONCEPT OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION The Scope of Eurasian Integration The Waves of Eurasian Exchange Top-down and Bottom-up Integration in Eurasia PART II: EMERGING EURASIAN ECONOMIC LINKAGES Spaghetti, Noodle and Lapsha: Continental Bias in Trade in Eurasia Factor Flows in Eurasia: Mutual Investments, Evolving Eurasian Multinationals and Fragmented Labour Markets PART III: INFRASTRUCTURE OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION From a trans-European and trans-Asian to a trans-Eurasian vision of Transport Corridors Borderless Energy: Common Electric Power Markets Telecommunications Links Across the Continent PART IV: INTEGRATION THROUGH MUTUAL PROBLEMS Transborder Ecological Issues on the Continent 'Shadow Integration': Trafficking of Drugs, People and Arms, and the Effects of Microbes and Epidemics PART V: FORMAL INTERGOVERNMETNAL COOPERATION Variations Between Political Systems Integration of Large States Sub-Regional Aspects of Eurasian Integration PART VI: NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EURASIA: THE SUCCESSOR OF THE POST-SOVIET AREA From Post-Soviet to Eurasian Integration Central Asia at the Crossroads: a Laboratory of Eurasian Integration Conclusion