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POST-SOVIET DYNAMICS OF GEO-ECONOMIC BALANCE OF FORCES IN THE MODERN BLACK SEA REGION AND ITS IMPACT ON CROSS-BORDER CLUSTERING

A. G. Druzhinin, V. V. Gorochnaya, N. V. Gontar

Abstract

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 viewed to be in correlation with the formation of cross-aquatic region (as it already takes place in the region of Baltic Sea). Being the most experienced in the clustering, Turkey and Romania tend to vertical integration of the local enterprises with the foreign (mostly European) ones. Essential self-organizing is combined with multi-scale administrative directives in Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine, while in Georgia the most of clusters are at the initial stage of their development and are projected. The common trends in clustering among the most of the Black Sea countries are embodied in the same set of economic industries being involved in clustering processes, as well as the development of cross-border cluster interaction based on deep social and cultural relations, and the common geo-economic trends such as crises and bilateral confrontations have both positive and negative impact on the clustering within the region. The other trend is the involvement of each group of the Black Sea countries into the other cultural and legal spaces such as EU (for the Bulgaria and Romania, that build their cluster policy based on the principal of complementary) and the common civilizational field Russia – South Caucasus – Turkey.

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