Avrasya Bölgesinde Çok Taraflılık ve Bölgeselcilik Tartışmaları: Kırgızıstan Tercihinin Kuramsal Nedenleri

In this paper whether Kyrgyzstan should stay in the World Trade Organization or should take part in the newly established Customs Union among Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia would be analyzed in the framework of theoretical literature. From the start of the foundation of the new Customs Union there have been deep discussions among the proponents and opponents of organization. This issue attracted extra attention and interest because the new Customs Union includes non-members of the World Trade Organization such as Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan is already a member country of WTO and is going to join the new Customs Union. How will this membership work for Kyrgyzstan in short and long-term period? Will the new Customs Union be substitutive or complementary to the WTO in the development of international trade of Kyrgyzstan? Which side would be more beneficial for Kyrgyzstan: membership to a regional Customs Union or to a multilateral WTO? This paper hopes to analyze these main questions through the lens of theory. It would be argued that new Custom Union like previous ones, tend to be instrument of to keep contemporary policy rather than to solve the long-term problems of international trade in the region.