The CIS, the EU and Russia

1. Introduction
Katlijn Malfliet, Lien Verpoest, Evgeny Vinokurov

Part I. In Pursuit of Integration in the Post-Soviet Area

2. The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond
Irina Kobrinskaya

3. Russian Approaches to Integration in the Post-Soviet Space in the 2000s
Evgeny Vinokurov

4. Russia’s Pursuit of its Eurasian Security Interests: Weighing the CIS and Alternative Bilateral—Multilateral Arrangements
John P. Willerton, Mikhail A. Beznosov

Part II. The EU and the Post-Soviet Space

5. The Clash of Integration Processes? The Shadow Effect of the Enlarged EU on its Eastern Neighbours
Tom Casier

6. Russia, the CIS and the EU: Secondary Integration by Association?
Holger Moroff

7. EU—Russia Relations in EU Neighbourhood Policies
Marius Vahl

Part III. Patterns of Integration

8. Parallels and Divergences of Integration in Ukraine and Belarus
Lien Verpoest

9. Patterns of Integration and Regime Compatibility: Ukraine Between the CIS and the EU
Rilka Dragneva, Antoaneta Dimitrova

10. Integration by Absorption: New Subjects for the Russian Federation
Gennadi Kurdiukov, Katlijn Malfliet

11. The EU—Russia Common Economic Space and the Policy-Taker Problem
Evgeny Vinokurov

12. Conclusion: Challenges of Integration — the EU, the CIS and Russia
Katlijn Malfliet, Lien Verpoest, Evgeny Vinokurov

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, European Union Politics, International Relations, Political Science