| Abstrakt: |
The postmodern information society is characterized by the process of descentralization as a phenomenon. Such a tendency is connected with many factors of our time, but the interest in the region as a separate territory and a a particular territorial unit are also factors. Regionalism can be considered in two ways: first, how the organization of society is objectively determined by historical, economic and other factors in a theoretical context; second, as the evolution of certain territories, as an integral subject, it analyzes the process of the regional construction of space. Therefore, regionalism is a phenomenon characterized by the intensification of regional interactions, the strengthening of local cooperation institutions, the creation of associations on a regional basis. Most often, researchers define regionalism as a process of conscious expansion and intensification of relations that is limited to the extraneous interactions between countries related to their geographical proximity, the similarity of living conditions and lifestyle in order to obtain positive effects, by group cooperation, in various spheres of life. On the one hand, regionalism is associated with integration processes, and on the other, regionalism, as a scientific discipline, was born in response to the inability of the existing theory of integration to explain the processes of cooperation outside Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
