Conclusion

Abstract

Post-Soviet integration has been a permanent feature of political debate in the FSU for the last two decades but seems to have received only limited attention in academic literature. This may at first have been due to the expectation that old Soviet links would soon disappear. Post-Soviet regionalism seemed to be an artificial concept, associated with permanent integration rituals, but demonstrating no real progress in terms of intergovernmental cooperation. Rapidly increasing migration and investment interaction in the 2000s and the establishment of the Customs Union challenge this perception: regionalism in the post-Soviet space is alive and well and is certainly able to influence government policy. It is therefore deserving of scholarly investigation — which we attempt with this book.