The (Re)Emergence of Regional Economic Integration In the Former Soviet Union

Bibliographic Data

ID6340259
AuthorsLee Kendall Metcalf (Florida State University, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume50
Issue3
Pages529-549
Publication date1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/106591299705000303
OpenAlexW1993937922
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

This study examines the consequences of the collapse of the unified Soviet market at the end of 1991, the dilemmas of choice generated by the economic and political costs and benefits of reintegration with differ ent states, and the resulting attempts to create new forms of economic cooperation. A gravity model is used to determine whether these new forms of cooperation have had a positive impact on the members' bilat eral trade. This reveals that in the first few years of its existence member ship in the Commonwealth of Independent States has not generally had a positive impact on trade, while membership in the Baltic Free Trade As sociation and the Central Asian Commonwealth have, although they are composed of small states which produce similar products and, in the case of the Central Asian Commonwealth, are at a lower level of development

Commonwealth · Economic integration · Economic union · Economics · International economics · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Global trade and economics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy

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