title: Adhesive and centrifugal forces in the post-Soviet economic space
abstract: The chapter overviews the intra-CIS economic trajectories after 1991. It explores trends in intra-regional trade, investments, the status and prospects of integration efforts. It also analyses the potential challengers, the EU's Eastern Partnership programme and China's growing influence predominantly in Central Asia. Despite the declining trend in intra-regional cooperation and Russia's leverage, these later centers of gravity do not represent a full-fledged alternative. Thus Moscow can preserv
journal: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)