ABSTRACT

The goal of this paper is to investigate how the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (and of the Customs Union, its predecessor organisation) affected the way Eurasian countries interact with the WTO. There exists a large literature on the tensions between the regional economic integration and the multilateral trade system; adjusting its arguments for the case of the post-Soviet Eurasia, I ask whether establishment of the CU/EAEU reduced the interest of Eurasian countries towards the WTO membership, constrained them in the WTO negotiations or affected their commitments towards the WTO. For the first two questions, I find that the CU/EAEU did not make WTO membership less desirable or feasible. My findings with respect to the third question are ambiguous. Overall, the paper concludes that Eurasian regionalism does not constitute a major constraint for the Eurasian countries’ participation in the multilateral trade system (at least for the large countries).

摘要

本文的目的是调查欧亚经济联盟（以及关税同盟的前身组织）的建立如何影响欧亚国家与WTO的互动方式。关于区域经济一体化与多边贸易体系之间紧张关系的文献很多。调整针对后苏联欧亚大陆的论点，我想问CU / EAEU的成立是否降低了欧亚国家对加入WTO的兴趣，是否限制了它们在世贸组织的谈判中，或影响了它们对世贸组织的承诺。对于前两个问题，我发现CU / EAEU并没有降低加入WTO的意愿或可行性。我对第三个问题的发现是模棱两可的。全面的，