Madyar R.O. Transborder Economic Co-operation under the Conditions of Globalization and European Integration. - Manuscript.

Thesis for Candidate Degree in Economics. Speciality 08.00.02 - World Economy and International Economic Relations. The Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. - Kyiv, 2008.

The thesis presents complex, systemic, in an extensive international comparative plan conceptual-theoretical and concrete-economic grounds of basic tendencies in the development of the system of transborder economic co-operation under the conditions of globalization and European economic integration. In particular, it has been shown, that frontier regions play the role of an important joining link and secure optimum parameters of integration process development, as, on the one hand, economic integration on the interregional frontier level, as a rule, forestalls forward motion of the intergovernmental integration, and on the other, even at the interior frontiers of a certain international economic community transborder regions with integral international regional economic complex are gradually being formed, which means a peculiar "integration inside integration".

The place and role of transborder economic relations as a subsystem (sublevel) in the global system of international economic relations have been defined in the thesis; in particular, a dichotomous nature of transborder economic co-operation has been demonstrated, which not only facilitates the formation of international regional economic complexes at the contiguous borderland of neighbouring states, but also forms exogenetic integration infrastructure; thus, frontier regions, which are situated along the perimeter of the exterior frontiers of the international economic communities, perform the duties of contact zone with the third states and their integration associations.

Boundary territories are traditionally more backward in socio-economic development in comparison to the industrial centers of the countries. Independently, only due to the internal regional resources, they are not able to work out difficult economic problems. That is why maximal utilization of external factors for the acceleration of socio-economic development of boundary regions and aligning their levels of development should be considered as the pragmatic purpose of expansion of transborder co-operation and.

It is shown that the strategic purpose of Ukraine in development of transborder co-operation in the conditions of the neighbourhood with European Union lays in the transformation of such type (level) of co-operation into the additional and effective channel of the future integration of the country into the EU and increasing the effectiveness of the country`s participation within the system of international economic relations and international division of labor under the conditions of globalization.

The interconnection and interplay of globalization, regionalization and integration of transborder economic co-operation have been analyzed. The types of frontier regions, essence and character of transborder economic co-operation, its device, basic directions and types have been defined. Systemic changes of transborder economic co-operation of Ukraine under the conditions of immediate neighbourhood with the European Union have been characterized.

Considering the example of European integration, the author`s typologization of transboundary regional models is offered. These models of transboundary economic co-operation are formulated as:

1) supply-sales oriented model;

2) trade or trade-intermediary model, typical for the developing and transitional countries;

3) investment-productive, or reproductive - effective enough in relation to the integration of a national economy into a globalizing world economy;

4) innovative or innovative investment model, which corresponds to the modern and the perspective economic progressive trends in the context of deepening of the processes of globalization and European integration.

The necessity of strategic planning and programme-purpose-oriented approach in order to increase the efficiency of the transborder economic co-operation of Ukraine with the purpose of transformation of the model of transborder economic relations from mainly trade and production-investment-oriented into the innovative investment one that corresponds to the modern and perspective economic progressive trends in the context of the deepening processes of globalization and European integration.

Keywords: transborder economic co-operation, frontier region, globalization, regionalization, European integration, European Union, Ukraine.

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