Project Details
Projekt
Understanding Eurasian Regionalism – Actorness and Interaction in Economy and Security
Subject Area
Political Science
Term
since 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 444058835
The goal of this envisioned project is to enhance our understanding of regional organisations (ROs) in the post-Soviet Eurasian space by challenging commonly held assumptions in contemporary regionalism scholarship. Presently, there are few explanations for the distinct character of Eurasian regionalism, and none, which employ comparative regionalism analytical frameworks to study relations between international organisations (IO-IO research) where the RO’s actorness is stressed. Our project will examine the economic and security fields of regional integration, which are undoubtedly the most dynamic within Eurasian regionalism, among the seven largest Eurasian ROs: the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). To achieve the empirical and theoretical goals of the project, we intend to use a mixed-methods research design with simultaneous large-N and small-N studies at the country- and RO-level.
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