ABSTRACT
This essay is an introduction to the special issue and it outlines the main guiding puzzles and questions raised in different contributions. The special issue asks the following general questions. How Eurasian organisations are ‘embedded’ in the global and regional governance networks? What empirical and ideational strategies are implemented on the part of these organisations? How do they interact with traditional international institutions? The contributions in this issue develop different empirical and theoretical approaches to address these puzzles and to contribute to our understanding of Eurasian international organisations as actors in global governance and economy.
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Notes
1. The authors are listed alphabetically and they contributed equally to this essay. Alexander Libman appreciates the support of the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities of China (Centre for Russian Studies of East China Normal University), Project Number: 16JJDGJW004. Anastassia V. Obydenkova is grateful to the Centre for Institutional Studies of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics and to the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals for hosting her as a leading research fellow and a visiting professor.