Sources

-ARU, 2019. Harvard System. [online] Available at <https://library.aru.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm&gt; [Accessed 19 November 2019].

This website has been crucial to understand apply the Harvard citation system to this reference list.

-Baslar, K., 2001. The Commonwealth of Independent States: Decayed within a Decade. The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations. 32. pp.91-125.

This academic article was our first encounter witha description of the institucional structure of the CIS.

-Brzezinski, Z. and Sullivan, P. eds., 1997. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Documents, Data, and Analysis. New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., pp.43-45.

This book focuses on the role of Russia in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The specific pages that have been used talk about the agreement that was reach to create the CIS between Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, and specifies the 14 articles that this agreement was based on.

-Bunyavejchewin P. and Nimmannorrawong P., 2016. The Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD): Formation and Development. Ritsumeikan Journal of Asian Pacific Studies. 35. pp17-26.

This article is about the Asian Cooperation Dialogue, an important international organization of the seminar.

-China Global Television Network, 2017. Commonwealth of Independent States: Questions raised on relevance of mechanism. CGTN, [online]. Available at: < https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d49444e32454464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/share_p.html> [Accessed 17 november 2019]

Another newspaper with the point of view that the CIS is in crisis.

-Commonwealth of Independent States, 2013. Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States. [online] Available at: < https://iacis.ru/eng/ > [Accessed 19 november 2019]

This is one of the few CIS official web pages that are in english.

-Commonwealth of Independent States, 2019. Executive Comittee of the Commonwealth of Independent States. [online] Available at: < http://www.cis.minsk.by/index.php > [Accessed 20 november 2019]

Th officcial web of the CIS. Full of useful information

-Datos Macro, 2019. CEI – Comunidad de Estados Independientes. [online] Available at <https://datosmacro.expansion.com/paises/grupos/cei> [Accessed 15 November 2019].

This webpage has a huge database with many kinds of data from different fields. It has been useful to gather information about the CIS’ countries’ population and GDP.

-Europa Press, 2019. Un 53,6% de la población mundial ya se conecta a Internet, según la UIT. Europa Press. [online] 10 November. Available at <https://www.europapress.es/economia/noticia-536-poblacion-mundial-ya-conecta-internet-uit-20191110120238.html> [Accessed 14 November 2019].

This news article talks about how an increasing percentage of people have access to the internet over time, and points out that the CIS holds this figure at 72,2%, 10 points below Europe. That shows how the CIS does progress in some ways.

-Fonarev, M. A., 2013. Raspad Sovetskogo Soyuza i Transformaciya Evraziyskogo Sodruzhestva: Noviye Realii. Vestnik Bashkirskogo Instituta Socialnih Tehnnologiy, 4(20).

This article covers the forces present in the emergent space that later become the CIS and their effects on the development of the organisation, giving valuable historical insight on its origins.

-Higueras, G., 2016. La Comunidad de Estados Independientes, 25 años de un proyecto fallido. El Periódico. [online] 1 December. Available at <https://www.elperiodico.com/es/internacional/20161207/la-comunidad-de-estados-independientes-25-anos-de-un-proyecto-fallido-5676457> [Accessed 14 November 2019].

This online newspaper article in Spanish explains how the CIS project has always been object of debate and contradictions. It’s very interesting to understand the situation of inestability that has often «defined» this organization.

-Huseynov, V., 2019. Negotiations failed? Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reaches dangerous stage. New Eastern Europe. [online] 8 October. Available at <https://neweasterneurope.eu/2019/10/08/negotiations-failed-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-reaches-dangerous-stage/> [Accessed 14 November 2019].

This online newspaper article talks about the territorial conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This is one of the many problems suffered by the countries of the CIS, and which make progress harder to achieve.

-Kembayev, Z., 2009. Legal Aspects of the Regional Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area. Berlin: Springer.

This book aims to analyze the process of disintegration of the Soviet Union, along with the attempts to create a new paradigm in the Post-Soviet area. It’s especially useful to see specific aspects of the CIS that were crucial to its creation and situation.

-Kubicek. P., 2009. The Commonwelth of Independent States: An Example of Failed Regionalism?, Review of International Studies, 35, pp.237-256

This academic article focuses only on the CIS with a critical analisis.

-Libman, A., 2011. Commonwealth of Independent States and Euroasian Economic Community. (G. Finizio, L. Levi, & N. Vallinoto, Eds.) The Democratization of International Organizations. International Democracy Watch, pp3–52.

In this magazine, there was found the main differences and similarities between the organizations to compare: Euroasian Economic Community and Commonwealth of Independent States.

-Markedonov. S., 2005. El espacio post-soviético. Siglo XXI. [online] 29 june. Available at: <http://www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-diario/mostrar/8662/espacio-post-sovietico> [Accessed 19 november 2019]

An example of the post-soviet concept.

-Mihaylenko, A. N., 2007. SNG: Byit ilyi ne byit. Sans Petersburg: AVOK Severo-Zapad.

In this book the author offers his own vision of the process of improving the mechanism of interaction within the Commonwealth. Considerable attention in the book is paid to the issues of institutional development of the CIS, and it is therefore useful to understand the relations between the States at the time.

-Moreno. B., 2018. Rusia y el espacio postsoviético en 2019. [online] El Orden Mundial (EOM). Avalaible at: < https://elordenmundial.com/rusia-y-el-espacio-postsovietico-en-2019/> [Accessed 18 november 2019].

An international relations article with the concept of Post-Soviet Zone.

-Ruiz Befán, J., 1999. El tránsito de la URSS a la CEI. DialNet, pp56-60.

This magazine was a great reference to understand the perception of the CIS, and especially the doubts and uncertainty surrounding it. It points out those aspects that may be final for the outcome, and previews different possible scenarios.

-Sakwa, R. and Webber M., 1999. The Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991-1998: Stagnation and Survival. Europe-Asia Studies. 51(3). pp.379-415.

This academic article cleary makes a diference between the CIS and the USSR. The CIS hasn’t been a good successor.

-World Bank, 2018. GDP (current US$). [online] Available at <https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2018&start=1960&view=chart > [Accessed 15 November 2019].

The World Bank offers financial and technical assistance to developing countries, and also offers socioeconomic data, among other. This certain reference was extremely useful to get information on the total GDP of the world, although it had to be converted from dollars to euros, to then compare it to that of the CIS’.

-World Bank, 2018. Population density (people per sq. km of land area). [online] Available at <https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?type=points&view=map> [Accessed 15 November 2019].

The World Bank website helped us find data on the population density, with a map to represent this data in a much more visual and understandable way, for every single country. We focused on the members of the CIS.

-World Bank, 2018. Population, total. [online] Available at <https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.pop.totl> [Accessed 15 November 2019].

Data regarding the total world population could also be found in the World Bank website, which allowed us to make a comparison with the total population of the CIS members and the organization all together.

-Ziegler, C.E., 2009. Russia and the CIS in 2008: Axis of Authoritarianism. Asian Survey. 49(1). pp.135-145.

Example of the influence Russia in the CIS. In this article they almost are synonyms.

-Zúbov, A., 1995. Evolución y perspectivas de la CEI tres años después. Anuario Internacional CIDOB 1994 (edición 1995). Grandes temas: el espacio postsoviético, pp493-499.

This articles uses the name region of Post-Soviet Space.