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AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE SOVIET VIEW OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, DRAWING ON RECENT RESEARCH DONE BY SOVIET SCHOLARS, AND MAKES COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE EEC CAPITALIST MODEL OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION WITH THE CMEA OR SOCIALIST MODEL. HE ARGUES THAT THE INTEGRATION OF PRODUCTION IS THE SOURCE OF THE SOCIALIST'S INTEGRATIVE STABILITY & DISCUSSES CONVERGENCE OF THE TWO MODELS AS UNLIKELY.

The European Union is one of the most successful modern integration projects. The progress made for more than half a century gives an example for many regional associations, including EurAsEC. However, a variety of economic and political problems arose on the way of the EU establishment. Is it possible to solve them, and how? The article is devoted to the answers to these questions.

From the latter half of 1980s, an extensive shift in internationalization of financial sector started in the world economy. At that time, many financial operations lost touch with their original facility and began to run wild, far advancing the development of national and world commodity and services markets. The fundamental reason for such advance lies in the fact that the international capital migration allows its owners to increase revenues much easier and faster than the international trade. The rapid development of electronic telecommunications facility, which helps in performing financial operations in real-time mode and regardless of distance, plays in favor. That's why globalization in this sphere occurs much more actively than in the production of goods and services. In the estimation of experts, daily transactions on world currency, loan and financial markets 50 times exceed world goods trade dealings in costs.

Since long ago drugs production and trafficking, by scale and negative consequences for the society, has turned into one of global problems. Drug usage leads to personal degradation of millions and to premature death of hundreds of thousands of people. But it is only the tip of the iceberg. The other parts are a wide-spread black market, smuggling, corruption, shaping mafia clans, which erode state services and even defy the integrity of public institutions. The struggle with this disaster continues on a national and an inter-governmental level for more than a century, but without any success. The author finds the root cause of this in the specific nature of this global problem and believes that the efforts should rather focus on the reduction in the demand for drugs, than on drugs production and trafficking.

This is a response to the publication of the article А. Michailenko ("MEMO Journal", 2002-11) devoted to the problems that hinder the development of the Union State Russia–Belarus.

The article analyses the essential components of the strategy of a catch-up growth. It is shown how much does mean a competent economic, especially industrial and foreign trade policy of the state. The author argues that, while having successfully managed the transition from a command economy to the mixed model, Russia stopped at the next-stage of development – the formulation and realization of an optimal strategy for a long-term modernization. Only in 2008 the government approved the Concept of country's development until 2020 in which the transition to the innovative model of development is advertised. However, it is likely that the due time for the establishment of an information and diversified economy is lost. We should expect a significant drop in world prices for oil and natural gas as result of the rapid development of gas production from shale and the transfer of cars on self-contained power supply. The country transition to the innovative way of development is hampered not only by the economic factors but also by the current political situation. All this does not promise quick success for implementation of a catch-up growth model in Russia.

The article is devoted to the analysis of difficulties in implementation of several international agreements on averting the environmental and, first of all, climatic threat in the modern world. Business and governments of countries having environmentally dirty industry reluctantly support international agreements on greenhouse gases emission limitation as far as it impairs their competitiveness, they lose market outlets and incomings, while the state budgets find tax proceeding missing.

The author notes that two parallel processes are taking place presently: gradual strengthening and sophistication of governmental intervention in economy and social matters, and, at the same time, narrowing of the state regulation functions extent owing to their partial transition to supranational regulators. In the article, it is attempted to answer the question: what is happening nowadays – strengthening or weakening of a nation state?