STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE EAEC IN COMPETITIONWITH EUROPEAN INTEGRATION FORMATS IN THE CIS SPACE
https://doi.org/ 10.18384/2310-676X-2018-5-296-307
Abstract
The article analyzes political, institutional and identity-related features of the Eurasian integration project that constitute its strengths and weaknesses in competition with the EU-promoted forms of ‘soft integration’ in its Eastern neighbourhood. Proceeding from the finding of the investigation the author shows that the EAEU’s strengths consist in lower degree of integration constraints imposed by it upon member states and, hence, more favorable terms for preservation of their state sovereignty. At the same time, these strengths are not sufficient for overcoming the EAEU’s handicaps: weakness of its common identity and political subjectivity, structural asymmetry of its participants, which prevents integration process from getting beyond inter-state bargaining, and narrowness of its normative context that in absence of potent value basis is not able to compete successfully with the EU normative claims over the CIS states.
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