The CIS Handbook

One of six Regional Handbooks so far announced ‐ the others cover India, China, Japan, and Central and Eastern Europe ‐ this present work strives to give a semblance of coherence to the Commonwealth of Independent States which, as Heenan and Lamontagne remark in their editorial note, “has proved to be ineffective in most of its activities, and largely irrelevant to the daily lives of the citizens of its member states”, but adding that the CIS remains “the only organization that brings them all together now or is likely to do so in the coming years”. It takes no great...