Integration Processes within the Eurasian Economic Union: Kazakhstan’s Narratives

Why the European Union Should Talk with the Eurasian Economic Union

Eurasian Economic Union Foundation: Issues of Global Regionalization

This paper is devoted to the theoretical conceptualization of political-economic processes within the Eurasian Economic Union. The author elaborates on this project within the framework of “global regionalization” and regards it as a fledging “global region.” In this paper, the European Union is analyzed as a model of the existing global region. The Eurasian region also has its own specific tra...

Regionalism and its Economic Effects on Iran in a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model:A Case Study of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)

Over the last three decades, membership in regional trade arrangements has become one of the most important tools of trade diplomacy. Regional agreements bring a lot of benefits for the member countries through reducing barriers and restrictions. Considering the signing of the Interim PTA Agreement between Iran and Eurasia and its effects, this study aimed to investigate the economic effects of...

Welfare State Development in the context of European Integration and Economic Convergence: Situating Ireland within the European Union Context

The issue of convergence has received considerable attention within the European Union over the past decade. Convergence on key economic dimensions was a clear objective of Ireland's entry into the European Community and is now central to the admission aspirations of the current applicant countries. In this paper I outline key aspects of Ireland's economic convergence and explore the implicatio...

Economic Integration, Union Power, and Growth with Creative Destruction

We construct a Schumpeterian growth model of a common market with following properties. Households can stay as workers or become researchers at some cost. Workers are employed in production and researchers in R&D. Workers are unionized. Intermediate goods are substitutes and their producers are strategically interdependent. The main findings are as follows. Both union power and economic integra...