The Commonwealth of Independent States: decayed within a decade

In: Milletlerarası münasebetler türk yıllığı: ˜Theœ Turkish yearbook of international relations, Band 32, S. 91-125

Abstract

Examines basic structure and status under international law of the CIS, created in Dec. 1991 and comprising Russia and 11 former Soviet republics, and institutional weaknesses which caused its integration model to fail and prevented it from becoming an effective regional organization. Comparisons with the British Commonwealth and European Union.