Korneeva E.Yu. Comparative analysis of the main modern regional integrational unions

Abstract: The subject of this research is the regional integrational processes and the key regional integrational unions in the modern world: European Union, MERCOSUR, CIS, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and North American Free Trade Agreement. A constructive theoretical understanding of the integrational processes is closely connected to the analysis of the European integration which for a long time was an example followed by other integrations. However, with the appearance of the new regional integrational unions in the other parts of the world and the established political and economic issues of the EU, emerges a question of canonicity of the said integrational project. The author makes a conclusion that integration should not be narrowed down to the only EU style and consider the rest as an unworthy “initiative” that is doomed to assimilate with the European type of integration or die before being accomplished. The absence of the canonic standard of integration can serve as alternative option. This analysis represents an applied importance for the post-Soviet space with such dying integrational union as CIS and the newly formed Eurasian Economic Union. The author believes that it is important to base on the experience of the Western and Eastern countries in development of the integrational project, but take into account the uniqueness of a certain region and goals of the participants.

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