Abstract
The post-Soviet region has been facing challenges such as ethnic conflicts, regime instabilities, separatism; border disputes, foreign rivalry, neo-imperial policies, security problems, human and drug trafficking, and water and energy tensions. This article examines the new regionalism of Eurasia with the Eurasian Economic Community. The treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Community was signed on 10 October 2000 and came into effect on 30 May 2001, once it was ratified by all member states. Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan have been members of the Eurasian Economic Community since it was formed. Armenia, Moldova, and Ukraine have observer status in the Eurasian Economic Community. In this study, the structure, main aims, activities and roles of the Eurasian Economic Community will be examined and the current status and future prospects of the Eurasian Economic Union will be evaluated in light of the crisis in Ukraine. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p1986
Highlights
It is apparent that today post-Soviet region has been facing some domestic problems as ethnic conflicts, regime instabilities separatism and some international problems as foreign rivalry, neo-imperial policies, security problems, international terrorism, border disputes, human and drug trafficking, water and energy tensions
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan attended the meeting of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community on 12 May 2011
The main aims of the Eurasian Economic Community have been to complete the formalization of a free trade regime, to create a unified customs tariff, and a unified system of non-tariff regulation measures
Summary
It is apparent that today post-Soviet region has been facing some domestic problems as ethnic conflicts, regime instabilities separatism and some international problems as foreign rivalry, neo-imperial policies, security problems, international terrorism, border disputes, human and drug trafficking, water and energy tensions. Molchanov (2012) states that Eurasian regionalism can be defined as complementary and sometimes contradictory processes of the economic, social, political and normative reintegration of several post-communist states that span the Eurasian continent. The members of the Eurasian Economic Community, Belarus and Kazakhstan, do not support the policy of the Russian Federation on backing separatist movements, such as in the 2008 South Ossetia War (Shelest, 2014, p.3). Belarus, and Kazakhstan established the Eurasian Economic Commission (EurAsEC). Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation were the initial members of this customs union They declared that other EurAsEC member states would be able to take part in the organziation when their economies had improved. In this context, they agreed that the realization of the EurAsEC customs union and common economic space would help the Community become an important organization for regional integration
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