REGIONAL TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE SYSTEM OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Modern international relations of the countries of the world depend to a great extent on the challenges of globalization processes. International experience shows that globalization is not a unidirectional and unambiguous process, and has the potential to strengthen and weaken interconnections between countries and regions of the world. The purpose of the article is to determine the essence of regional processes of integration and disintegration, their factors at different stages of globalization, to guide the author's matrix model of periodization of disintegration activity in the world in 1914-2018, to identify threats and opportunities of both integration and disintegration processes in international economic relations. The article proposes the author's definition of the categories "economic Integration" and "economic disintegration", and the paradox of the interdependence and contradiction of these phenomena is determined. The results of a detailed study of the key causes of regional economic disintegration are presented, and specific historical examples of this phenomenon are highlighted. The factors of integration and disintegration tendencies coexisting in the process of world development are considered. Disintegration factors are formulated and systematized according to institutional, political, legal, economic and socio-cultural dimensions. In the process of proving the results of the research, the emphasis is on such dimensions of disintegration as political, economic, social, examples of its manifestation in different regions of the world are given.