Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Shcherbak Igor
    New horizons for a Greater Eurasia.
    in Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali , Volume 81, n. 4, ottobre-dicembre ,  2014 ,  545-552
    The present article was inspired by Michael Emerson research Towards a Greater Eurasia: who, why, what and how which raised a lot of far-reaching ideas concerning the future vision of a Greater Eurasian community on the crossroads of globalization and integration. The Author shares the pragmatic and evolutionary approach of Emerson towards modernization of Asem and transforming it into a coordination mechanism bridging European and Asian major regional players. The Author considers that the Ukrainian crisis over the Eu-Ukraine Association agreement (Free Trade deal) highlighted that the international community is confronted nowadays with totally new challenges to its security and stability not directly connected with traditional political and military factors. Non-traditional risks associated with trade, sanctions and tariffs wars, precipitated or imposed expansion or enlargement of geographical areas of regional organizations and arbitrary utilization of trade, financial and economic sanctions could be equally damaging for stability and security and finally for integration processes between Europe and Asia. The integration and harmonization of the Eurasian space should be supported by an adequate system and mechanisms for crisis prevention and crisis management. The central coordinating role in this respect should belong to Asem and major regional organizations (some of them, like Osce, could perform ‘bridging’ functions in integration processes). The article favours a new model of cooperation in Eurasia based on mutual openness of all regional organizations to each other, maximum transparency, adoption of universal rules and technical regulations, emphasis on accelerating harmonization of the Eurasian trade and economic space.
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