Ekonomická integrácia post-sovietskeho priestoru a mäkká moc Ruskej federácie Prečítať

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF THE POST-SOVIET SPACE AND SOFT POWER OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Martin Horemuž

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Politické vedy, Volume 18, Number 2/2015, pages 8-24 

Odporúčaná forma citácie článku / Recommended form for quotation of the article:

HOREMUŽ, M. 2015. Economic Integration of the Post-Soviet Space and Soft Power of Russian Federation. In Politické vedy. [online]. Roč. 18, č. 2, 2015. ISSN 1335 – 2741, s. 8-24. Dostupné na internete:<http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/userfiles/file/2_2015/HOREMUZ.pdf>.

ABSTRACT

Under the influence of globalisation, current tendencies and trends in the area of international relations more intensively head toward the integration of relevant areas and sectors of activities within nation states. This process, taking place in local, regional and as well as in the international (global) dimension has resulted in significant political, social, economic as well as cultural transformations in the structures of nation states. A robust and constantly increasing pace along with the changing dynamics of the processes in economic and social fields redraw the political map of the world, the image of which reflects a more complicated system of factors of uncertainty and unpredictability since the collapse of the bipolar system of international relations arrangements. In the above context, the aim of the paper is the description of the potential for economic integration of the post-Soviet space in the relation to the soft power of Russia. For the above mentioned goal the author mainly identifies factors limiting or supporting the economic integration process of post-Soviet space.

Key words: Commonwealth of Independent states, Custom Union, Common economic space, Eurasian Economic Community, Post-Soviet area, Soft Power