Russia and Eurasia

ECIPE Publications The Quest for Gas Market Competition (By Fredrik Erixon, Iana Dreyer, Robin Winkler) Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order? (By Brian Hindley, Iana Dreyer) Europe’s Energy Dependency and Russia’s Commercial Assertiveness (By Fredrik Erixon) Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO (By Arastou Khatibi, Brian Hindley, Fredrik Erixon, Iana Dreyer, Lucy Davis, Razeen Sally, Florian Koebele, Pierre-Olivier Legault Tremblay) Kazakhstan’s Revealed Comparative Advantage Vis-À-Vis the EU-27 (By Arastou Khatibi) Kazakhstan’s Accession to the WTO: A Quantitive Assessment (By Arastou Khatibi)

Articles, Opinion and Commentary The EU needs to act at home to counter Gazprom's power (Iana Dreyer says EU must act at home to counter Gazprom’s sway over Europe in Business New Europe.) Taking on the gas Goliath (Iana Dreyer on tackling Gazprom’s market dominance in Central and Eastern Europe in ESharp) The competition case against Gazprom (Iana Dreyer writes on the case for stepping up EU competition rules against Gazprom in the European Energy Review) Applying Effective Competition Rules in the EU’ Gas Markets to Regulate Energy Relations with Russia (Iana Dreyer writes on taming Russian gas supply cuts with effective competition policies.) There Will Be Gas (Iana Dreyer discusses what current EU gas market developments mean for the Middle East in Al Majalla) Can and should the US fast-track Russia into the WTO? (Iana Dreyer comments on the US agreement to support Russian accession to the WTO in Business New Europe.) Russia Rules and Divides Europe (Fredrik Erixon outlines a new EU approach towards Russia in the WSJ ) EU should use international law to tackle Russian energy relations (Iana Dreyer on EU-Russian energy relations in Business New Europe) L’or noir des Kazakhs (Brian Hindley and Iana Dreyer discuss EU trade strategy towards Kazakhstan in Telos) Membership Has Its Privileges (Brian Hindley and Fredrik Erixon on Kazakhstan's and Russia's renewing efforts to join the WTO, in the Wall Street Journal)

Events 2009-05-28 - How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy: Will Economic and Political Reforms Last through the Crisis? 2009-05-20 - ECIPE Breakfast Briefing: EU-Russia Relations - What Next? 2008-11-20 - Can EU-Russian Commercial Relations be Normalized? 2008-03-26 - Kazakhstan and the World Trade Organization: Foreign Economic Diplomacy And CIS Integration into the World Economy 2006-11-21 - The Eurasian Growth Paradox

Speeches and presentations Ukraine’s Financial and Political Crisis (Presentation by Anders Åslund. ECIPE Seminar - How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy: Will Economic and Political Reforms Last through the Crisis? May 28, 2009. ) EU-Russian Commercial Relations, preparing the ground for new relations after 2008 (ECIPE conference November 20, 2008: Can EU-Russian Commercial Relations be Normalized?) Russia as competitor and energy provider for the European Union (Text presented at Atlantik Brücke’s Young Leaders Conference in Ukraine.) Globalisation and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation in the BRIICS (An overview paper on the political economy of trade liberalisation in the BRIICS ) Russia’s growing commercial assertiveness (Presented in June 2008 in Kiev at a conference hosted by Atlantik Brücke) The political economy of trade policy reform in the BRIICS (Presented at the Australian National University, February 2008)