Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Интеграционные процессы в Евразии
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Направление:
41.03.05. Международные отношения
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Королев Александр Сергеевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course explores dynamics of regionalisation and regionalism in the Eurasian space, focusing on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as the “assemblage point” of Greater Eurasia and on Central Asia as the space of competition and cooperation in this region. The course pays particular attention to the relationship between institutional and ideational dimensions of regional integration, as well as to the agenda-setting and strategies of the EAEU, the CIS and BRICS. The course also examines economic drivers behind the EAEU development, opportunities for its interaction with third countries within the framework of free trade zones, as well as the development of the common agricultural market and interregional cooperation within the EAEU. Moreover, the course discusses specific challenges arising in Central Asia as part of Greater Eurasia, including issues of security, regional connectivity, and the preservation of a common humanitarian space in the region.
Learning Objectives
- To provide students with ability to understand the complex phenomena of Eurasian integration
- To provide students with ability to understand the evolution of Eurasian integration since 1994
- To provide students with ability to learn about the major institutions and formats in Eurasia, and role of Russia in these processes
- To provide students with the ability to distinguish the main institutional and economic features between the EAEU and other major integration associations in Eurasia - ASEAN and the EU
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To distinguish the theoretical features of integration, the differences between economic integration and other forms of foreign trade cooperation (in particular, the concept of connectivity)
- To analyse the features of China's Belt and Road Initiative, its limitations, achievements and problems
- To identify the features of BRICS as an integration element of the Global South and its role in the Russian "Eurasian" strategy
- To analyze the genesis and evolution of Eurasian integration, explain the main stages of its promotion, key institutions and formats
- To assess the development of common markets of the EAEU
- To identify the key achievements and shortcomings of the work of supranational bodies of the EAEU
- To assess the key features of the foreign economic strategy of the EAEU at the present stage, taking into account anti-Russian sanctions
- To assess the prospects for the development of the BRICS-EAEU-SCO triangle and broader cooperation with the participation of BRICS-EAEU-SCO-ASEAN as the core of the Greater Eurasian Space
Course Contents
- Introduction: What is integration? Theoretical discussion
- Belt and Road initiative
- BRICS a platform for new multipolarity. Correlation between Eurasia and Global South
- Model of integration in Southeast Asia
- The genesis of Eurasian integration: major steps, institutions and formats
- EAEU and its implementation: four freedoms, supranational bodies
- EAEU and its foreign economic strategy
- Comparative analysis between EU, EAEU and ASEAN as three different models of regional integration
- Impact of anti-Russian sanction on strategic aspects of EAEU
- From EAEU to Greater Eurasian Partnership
Assessment Elements
- In-class participationAssessment will be based on preparation of the readings assigned to each seminar, participation in class discussion with the focus on qualitative contribution to the discussion, ability to answer questions based on the readings, come up with own interpretations and react to comments made by other students. Students are expected to be actively involved in seminar discussions. In case of absence of a student from a seminar class for a valid reason (illness) and availability of the corresponding certificate, the student has the opportunity to compensate for the absence from the seminar class in writing. In such a case, the professor will individually send the assignment for compensation.
- EssayEach student must prepare an essay on the topic suggested by the teacher. The essay size is a minimum of 2.5 thousand words - a maximum of 3 thousand words. It must be original (at least 80% original) and contain a statement of the relevance of the research topic (research problem), a brief review of the literature on the research topic, a research question, a hypothesis, the main part and a conclusion.
- Oral examinationThe final exam is conducted orally and tests the student's general knowledge based on the material covered in lectures and seminars. The student chooses a ticket consisting of two questions on the course materials. Each student is given 15 minutes to prepare. The retake of the exam follows a similar procedure.
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.2 * Essay + 0.4 * In-class participation + 0.4 * Oral examination
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Eurasian integration : challenges of transcontinental regionalism, Vinokurov, E., 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Maksim Karliuk. (2016). The Limits of the Judiciary within the Eurasian Integration Process. HSE Working Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.hig.wpaper.69.law.2016