Acknowledgments
We would like to express our gratitude to Veronika Movchan at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting for providing economic data used in the paper. A more extensive economic analysis of the EAEU is available in Veronika Movchan’s forthcoming publication, ‘The Eurasian Economic Union: diverging trends in common trade policy’. We would also like to thank Derek Averre and Julian Cooper, as well as the three anonymous reviewers for their incisive comments on an earlier draft. Research for this paper was facilitated by two grants by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Grant No: RES-360-25-0096 and Grant No: ES/J013358/1 as well as a Horizon 2020 grant (grant agreement: 693382).