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The article is devoted to the problem of economic security and stability in the Black Sea region. Using the theoretical concept of economic security authors identify the main risks for both national and cross-border economic systems in the conditions of modern geo-economic and geopolitical turbulence. Cross-border economic clusters and trans-national systems with the long-term partnership strategies are viewed to be the cores of economic stability and the resource to maintain regional development. The study provid...

Coastal territories are the national growth nodes throughout the world. Concentration of human activity along the coast have long been recognized and conceptualized within the notion of coastalization. Russia is often perceived to be exposed to the opposite effect – continentalization. Article analyzes the antecedents of large business localization in 14 coastal regions of the European part of Russia. Results verify the assumption of companies being attracted to marine coasts of Russia, proving the general coast...

The article is devoted to the issues of the general economic development and clustering trends within the Black Sea Region. The authors analyze and conceptualize the post-Soviet dynamics of the region for the last decades and point out the vectors that changed the balance of power among the Black Sea countries. Integrative and disintegrative trends are also analyzed, the special attention being payed to cross-border economic clustering (including cross-aquatic one). Such clustering (both existing and potential) is...