Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions

Alexander Libman is Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses at Russian international and sub-national politics and comparative authoritarianism. He has published eleven books and multiple articles and was awarded research prizes from the Public Choice Society and the European Public Choice Society. Anastassia Obydenkova is Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her expertise is comparative politics, international relations, democracy, sustainable development, and area-focus on Eurasia and China. She has published nine books and multiple articles on these topics. She was awarded research fellowships at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.

Introduction—Global Governance and interaction between international institutions: the challenge of the Eurasian international organizations 1. Geopolitical games in Eurasian regionalism: ideational interactions and regional international organisations 2. The Eurasian Economic Union: keeping up with the EU and China 3. The Eurasian Economic Union: integration without liberalisation? 4. Russia in international economic institutions: are there contradictions in the regional and global agendas? 5. Eurasian regionalism and the WTO: a building block or a stumbling stone? 6. Interaction of Eurasian and international financial institutions 7. NATO vs. the CSTO: security threat perceptions and responses to secessionist conflicts in Eurasia 8. Competitiveness through new industrialisation in the EAEU 9. Moving towards developmental regionalism? Industrial cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union from an Armenian and Belarusian perspective Conclusion—Global governance and Eurasian international organisations: lessons learned and future agenda