Evaluating the Relationship between Model Legislation of Inter-Parliamentary Assemblies and Regional Convergence in the Commonwealth of Independent States

In the past three decades, the actions taken by regional integration organizations within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and subsequently extended within the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and the Eurasian Economic Union have recreated the structure and components of the Soviet Union. The prediction of inter-parliamentary assembly mechanisms in most post-Soviet Eurasian organizations has also been aimed at facilitating and strengthening this strategy with various approaches in the CIS countries. One of the most important strategies on the agenda of inter-parliamentary assemblies in the CIS is model legislation aimed at harmonizing national laws to facilitate and strengthen regional convergence in Eurasia. Thus, the focus of this paper is to explore the role of multilateral parliamentary governance within the framework of model legislation of inter-parliamentary assemblies in the process of regional convergence in Eurasia. Therefore, it seeks to answer the question: What impact has the model legislation of inter-parliamentary assemblies within the framework of multilateral parliamentary governance had on regional convergence in the CIS countries? As a result, using a comparative analysis method based on library and documentary data, it is argued that the strategy of inter-parliamentary assemblies, namely model legislation, serves as a minimal yet foundational action to facilitate regional convergence among the CIS countries.