Economic Dependence – Key Factor in the Interstate Relations between Russia and Eastern Partnership’s Countries

• Main Author: Moroșan Magdalena
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ovidius University Press 2016-01-01
• Series: Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
• Subjects: economic dependence; Russia; Eastern Partnership
• Online Access: http://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/2016/2016-I-full/Section-I/6.Morosan_Magdalena.pdf

At global level, interstate relations are governed by increasing trends of dependence. Theeconomic dependence is one of the key factors which shapes the interstate socio-politicalinteractions. Given the complexity and variety of relations between Russia and EasternPartnership’s countries, there are academic debates which starts from the concept of economicdependence that characterizes this relationship. In this study we have tried to achive acomprehensive analysis of the economic dependence that governs this relationship, considering,the european aspirations of Eastern Partnership's countries. In order to accomplish our goal, wewill focus on answering the following questions by analysing the economical and political behaviorof the actors: Are the Eastern Partnership’s countries vulnerable politically, due to their historicaleconomic dependence on Russia? Russia's domination in the region relies on maintaining thiseconomic dependence relationship? How this economic dependence influences the european route,of the countries, involved in Eastern Partnership?.