Introduction to the Eurasian Economic Union

Dr Evgeny Vinokurov is Director of the Centre for Integration Studies at the Eurasian Development Bank in Russia. As the founding director of the Centre of Integration Studies, he is responsible for an extensive research agenda which focuses on economic integration. Evgeny has written and edited a number of monographs on regional integration, including Evaluating Regional Organizations: Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates; Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism ; and Holding-Together Integration: 20 Years of Post-Soviet Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 2012, 2012, co-authored with Alexander Libman). He has published in journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Review of International Political Economy, European Urban and Regional Studies, Russian Journal of Economics , and Post-Communist Economies.