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Cross‐Regional production chains, competitive regionalism, and the deepening of regulatory fault lines in Euro‐Asia

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  • Margarita Balmaceda
  • Kirsten Westphal

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This article analyzes energy relations in the area encompassed by Russia, the EU, and their “common neighborhood” composed of Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova through the lens of the interaction and tension between regionalism and regionalization. It investigates how the interaction between these two processes is reflected on the ground, and how the friction between institutionalized, from‐above integration (“regionalism”) may clash with the more bottom‐up process involving the “making” of regions through day‐to‐day infrastructural and production‐chain links (“regionalization”). Based on an analysis of trans‐regional production chains in the oil, natural gas, and electricity sectors, it hypothesizes that the competitive energy regionalisms we are observing in the EU‐Russia neighborhood (exemplified by the EU‐led European Energy Community and the Russia‐led Eurasian Economic Union mismatch with the underlying flows and production chains, with important economic and political implications. Este artículo analiza las relaciones energéticas en el área que engloban Rusia, la UE y su “vecindario común” compuesto por Ucrania, Bielorrusia y Moldavia a través del lente de la interacción y tensión entre regionalismo y regionalización. Investiga cómo la interacción entre estos dos procesos se refleja sobre el terreno, y cómo la fricción entre la integración institucionalizada desde arriba ("regionalismo") puede chocar con el proceso más ascendente que involucra la "creación" de regiones a través del día a día. actuales eslabones infraestructurales y de cadenas productivas (“regionalización”). Sobre la base de un análisis de las cadenas de producción transregionales en los sectores del petróleo, el gas natural y la electricidad, plantea la hipótesis de que los regionalismos energéticos competitivos que estamos observando en la vecindad UE‐Rusia (ejemplificados por la Comunidad Europea de la Energía liderada por la UE y Rusia‐ desajuste de la Unión Económica Euroasiática con los flujos subyacentes y las cadenas de producción, con importantes implicaciones económicas y políticas. 本文透过区域主义和区域化的相互影响及冲突视角,分析了俄罗斯、欧盟和由乌克兰、白俄罗斯以及摩尔多瓦组成的“共同邻邦”在内的能源关系。本文调查了区域主义和区域化之间的相互影响如何在这一区域得以反映,以及制度化的、自上而下的一体化(即区域主义)之间的摩擦如何能与更自下而上的过程产生冲突,后者涉及区域的“创造”(即通过日复一日的基础设施联系以及生产链联系(即区域化)而产生)。基于对石油、天然气和电力产业中的跨区域生产链的分析,本文假设认为,我们在欧盟‐俄罗斯邻邦(以欧盟领导的欧洲能源共同体和由俄罗斯领导的欧亚经济联盟为代表)中观察到的竞争性能源区域主义与潜在的生产流动及生产链并不匹配,这一发现具有重要的经济意义和政治意义。

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  • Margarita Balmaceda & Kirsten Westphal, 2024. "Cross‐Regional production chains, competitive regionalism, and the deepening of regulatory fault lines in Euro‐Asia," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 41(2), pages 369-381, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:41:y:2024:i:2:p:369-381
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12469
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