03/17/08

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Dear visitor,

the papers on this site are grouped by subjects. The largest sections are devoted to the economic development of the Kaliningrad Region and to the theory of enclaves and exclaves. Besides, you will find papers on regional integration issues, including the post-Soviet "Eurasian" integration and the EU-Russia relations, as well as on the philosophy of international relations.

Some recent papers:

(2007) Financing Infrastructure in Central Asia: Water and Energy Nexus, World Finance Review, Spring issue, 135-139.

(2007) Nuclear Renaissance in Kazakhstan and Russia: Prospects for  Industrial Cooperation and Financing, World Finance Review, Fall issue, p.74-79.

(2007), A Theory of Enclaves, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. - please see "Enclaves" page.

(2007) Kaliningrad: Enclaves and Economic Integration. Brussels: CEPS. 169p. - please see the "Kaliningrad Region" page.

Russian Approaches to Integration on the Post-Soviet Space in the 2000s

The Dutch version was published as: (2005) Russische benaderingen van de integratieproblematiek. De post-sovjetruimte aan het begin van de 21e eeuw, Oost-Europa Tijdingen, (5): 2-29. A re-worked English version was published in: Malfliet, Katlijn, Verpoest, Lien, Vinokurov, Evgeny (eds.) (2007) The EU, the CIS, and Russia: the Challenges of Integration, Palgrave Macmillan, London.