REGION AS AN OBJECT OF SOCIOECONOMIC SECURITY

The article grounds the expediency of introducing a new category "socioeconomic security of a region" by means of combining two subcategories – "economic security of a region" and "social security of a region." The author explains why this new notion is necessary and how socioeconomic security becomes one of the objects in economic security at the mesolevel. Economic and social components of regional security do not contradict each other, but complement each other, providing mutual support and thus creating one common state of socioeconomic security (or insecurity) within a region. Connection between economic and social security of a region is bidirectional, quite complex and not always that obvious as it seems to be at first glance. Qualitative features of economic and social security interdependence are preconditioned by the specific features of a particular region. And these features may be rather diverse since region as such is a rather complex territorial, social and economic phenomenon.