ISBN : 9782296549876
RUSSIAN REGIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
One form of Russia's participation in the process of globalization is regionalization - active international activity of Russian regions in border and in cross-border relations. Formation of a new federal state in a democratic manner has led to changes in relations between center and periphery within the state, subjects of the federation received a strong mandate to implement the foreign political and economic contacts. In the post-Soviet Russia regions' involvement in international relations become a large scale phenomenon and attracts the attention of scientists. There are two main, complementary to each other, approaches to the study of this process: politological and interdisciplinary. Politological approach (political regionalism) is based on an understanding of regions as administrative units within the state system. Regions are considered in terms of issues of federalism, focusing on issues of territorial unity and national security. Regionalization is treated as one of the main trends of Russia's federalism. Interdisciplinary approach also addresses the economic, geographic, cultural and geopolitical f...