历史遗产及欧亚区域一体化

Why Is the "Post-Soviet" Regionalism Post-Soviet? Historical Legacies and Regional Integration in Eurasia

苏联历史以何种方式影响着欧亚区域主义(Eurasian regionalism)?尽管很多文献已注意到"后苏联"区域主义概念本身,即已蕴含着历史在其中所发挥的关键作用。但关于"苏联"历史遗产具体影响的研究,尚散布于文献之中且少被关注。这种历史遗产至少在两个方面影响着欧亚区域主义:一方面,它是区域组织(regional organizations)发展的隐性环境因素;另一方面,通过路径依赖的惯性作用,直接影响欧亚区域组织本身的演进。由于苏联遗产,欧亚区域主义的发展与其他地区的区域主义大相径庭。

The goal of the paper is to systematically review the variety of arguments describing how the Soviet past influences the development of the Eurasian regionalism. While many references to the ＂post-Soviet＂ regionalism imply that history should matter substantially for its evolution, to our knowledge, the arguments about particular effects of the historical legacies are scattered throughout the literature and rarely compared with each other. We argue that the historical legacies can matter for the Eurasian regionalism in two instances： by affecting the environment for the development of regional organizations and through the path-dependent evolution of organizations themselves. The paper concludes that the development of the Eurasian regionalism should indeed differ from that observed in many other parts of the world because of the Soviet legacies.