STRATEGIC GUIDELINES OF REGIONAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS INTERACTION IN INNOVATIVE PROCESSES OF THE REGION

Purpose. The article substantiates the strategic principles of development interaction systems in innovation processes of the region, which includes defining goals on a conceptual basis to ensure the value of interaction, clarifying the composition of subjects and objects of development regional interaction systems, implementation in certain stages. Design/methodology/approach. The goals set in the study were solved using the following general scientific methods: general scientific and special principles and techniques of scientific knowledge in the field of strategic management of innovative development of territories. Semantic analysis, comparative analysis and systematization method were used to carry out the theoretical substantiation of the system of strategic goals of regional development; the method of grouping, factor analysis, the method of structural-logical modeling is used in the development of a set of operational tasks to achieve strategic goals. An abstract-logical method was used to formulate conclusions and theoretical generalization of the results of the study. Findings. The subject of strategic management interaction in the innovation processes of the region is "innovation development", which takes into account the interests and goals of the subjects in the innovation process of the region. Strategic interaction management is carried out by defining goals on a conceptual basis to ensure the value of interaction, which involves the implementation of certain stages. Adherence to the proposed sequence of stages will ensure the required level of interaction value in regional systems for all participants in the innovation process on a strategic basis. The central apex of the "goal tree" is a strategic goal, in our context - ensuring the value of interaction in innovation processes. This strategic goal is deployed in tactical goals that capture large blocks of action to achieve a strategic goal, namely; block of rational use of innovation resources of the region, block of ensuring the usefulness of interaction, block of optimization of the cost of establishing interaction, block of increasing the productivity of innovation processes in the region, block of development of innovation infrastructure of the region. Practical implications. An obligatory stage in the formation of regional cooperation systems is the coordination and harmonization of the interests of potential participants on the basis a rational compromise to achieve the goals of regional development. The specified strategic goal is developed by the authors into tactical goals, which fix large blocks of actions to achieve the strategic goal, namely the block of rational use of innovation resources of the region, the block of ensuring the usefulness of interaction in regional interaction systems, the block of optimizing regional interaction, block of development of innovation infrastructure of the region. The need for improving regional management of the development interaction systems in innovation processes is due not only to its national importance for the development of NIS, but also the economic content - the formation of the economic base and support drivers of social and economic development of regions. It was proved that regional government institutions should fully support the development of the economy on market principles, while assuming the main responsibility for comprehensive overall regulation and strategic planning of economic development and direct support of the innovation process. Originality/value. For each of these blocks of strategic goals, the article substantiates a set of socio-economic tools for implementing tasks in regional interaction systems, which differ in the components of interaction systems, scope, nature of direction, duration, complexity of use, level of consistency, purposes of use, source of funding, direction raising funds. Summarizing the substantiation of strategic goals for interaction systems development in innovation processes of the region, it is necessary to emphasize harmonization and coordination of goals of interaction system formation with goals of innovative development of the region and individual goals for potential participants of interaction systems. After all, the development of interaction systems takes place through the maximum involvement of market stakeholders in cooperation and ensuring the value of their coordinated joint work on innovative projects and programs.

Current Political Trends in Central Europe: Lessons and Challenges for Russia

The year 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolutions and the de facto start of comprehensive reforms in Central Europe and in the region as a whole. The change of social systems and the entry of the former Eastern European countries to the common European market had its impact on the global balance of power resulting in a shift to the unipolarity with its predominantly transatlantic values. Today, however, we may observe the emerging trend both towards a political vector change in the mentioned countries and a new, more balanced international order due to which Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks and Czechs, a century later upon formation of political Central Europe, are finally willing to play a more prominent role than they did before. It is not about the role of a buffer or barrier assigned to them by the powers upon the world wars, but the role that was historically played by this region before the world wars and revolutions. This phenomenon is interesting not only in terms of discovering the region specifics, the prospects for building new socio-economic and integration models, but may also be relevant for a comparative analysis and insight into the political and economic evolution in Russia. Russia and Central Europe have had a period of social transformations, almost similar in duration, which goes back to the 1980s. Nevertheless, the countries differed in their goals and forms of transformations occurring in the early 1990s, although at the moment we are to address highly similar problems again. These countries are at different stages of their transformation process; however, they are rather similar in terms of the objectives to determine the future path to political, socio-economic, cultural and ideological development. The sense of incompleteness of the initiated transformations is prevalent both in Central Europe and in Russia. At the same time, there are doubts regarding the Western model of social policy. This process involves not only national development, but also regional interaction and international affairs, which matrix was destroyed 30 years ago, while the new one has not been created yet. Therefore, the Central European countries’ experience can be of value both to analyse their internal reforms and models of regional interaction, as well as to build a new type of international relations in a bilateral, allied and global manner.

Rethinking the Regional Security Complex Theory: A South American view between 2008-2016

With this article, we propose to reformulate the Regional Security Complex Theory, by Buzan and Waever, through a South American vision, with the time frame 2008-2016. To this end, we will analyse South America through Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, and their forms of intra and extra-regional interaction, highlighting the Colombia-United States relations, and the South American Defence Council, of the Union of South American Nations. This article is divided into a first section marked by an understanding of the Regional Complex Theory, in which we present and discuss its theoretical elements and weaknesses, and propose theoretical changes that will guide our analysis. The second section contains information about the South American Complex in the academic view, focusing on the arguments of Buzan and Waever. In the third section, we present the South American Regional Security Complex restructured, as well as the analysis of its dynamics. The central argument of the article is the need to reformulate the Theory in question for a better understanding of the complexities and unique characteristics of South America.

The Buddhist Decorative Glazed Tiles of Mrauk U: The Arakanese Appropriation of Islamic Glazed Tiling | မြောက်ဦးမြို့ရှိ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနိက အလှဆင် စဉ့်ချပ်များ အစ္စလမ်မစ် စဉ့်ချပ်အလှဆင်မှုဓလေ့ကို ရခိုင့်ဒေသယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့်လိုက်ဖက်စွာ ပြန်လည်အသုံးချမှု

Mrauk U is situated in the western part of modern Myanmar and was the capital of Arakan (Rakhine) from 1430 CE until the Burmese conquest in 1784 CE. Its unique position in the Bay of Bengal via the Kaladan river and its tributaries resulted in the development of a commercial and cultural center in its heyday. European travel accounts and chronicles describe Mrauk U as a prosperous cosmopolitan city with a polyglot court, not only using native Arakanese language but also Persian and Bengali. Consequently, the remnants of art and archaeology reveal that the artisans drew much of their inspiration from Indian, European and Burmese traditions (Gutman 2001; 2002; Leider 2002:83). This paper contextualizes decorative glazed tiles of Arakanese Buddhist monuments in relation to the historical, political and cultural situation of Mrauk U. Regional interaction will be taken into account to identify the origins and development of Arakanese glazing technology. Previous research has mainly focused on the art and architecture of the Mrauk U period and the origin of the glazing technique remains vague. The comparative analysis reveals that significant elements in Arakanese glazing art, such as the use of stylized, geometric, floral or vegetal designs and animal poses seem to be borrowed from Islamic art. This article argues that Islamic tile tradition exerted considerable influence on the Arakanese glazing technique, probably via Bengal. မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အနောက်ဖက်ပိုင်းတွင်တည်ရှိသော မြောက်ဦးမြို့သည် 1430 AD မှစ၍ 1784 AD ဗမာမင်းများ သိမ်းပိုက်ခဲ့သည့်အချိန်တိုင်အောင် ရခိုင်လူမျိုးတို့​၏ မြို့တော်ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ဥရောပ ခရီးသွားမှတ်တမ်းများနှင့် ရာဇဝင်များတွင် ဖော်ပြချက်များအရ မြောက်ဦးသည် လူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံ အခြေချနေထိုင်ပီး မိခင် ရခိုင့်ဘာသာစကား သာမက ပါရှန်းနှင့် င်္ဘဂါလီဘာသာစကားများပါ အသုံးပြုသော နန်းတော်တည်ရှိရာမြို့လည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ ၎င်း​၏ အကျိုးဆက် အနေဖြင့် မြောက်ဦးမြို့ရှိ ကျွင်းကျန်ရစ်သော ရှေးဟောင်သုတေသနနှင့် အနုပညာလက်ရာများသည် အိန္ဒိယ၊ ဥရောပ နှင့် မြန်မာ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဟန်များ ရောယှက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ယခုစာတမ်းသည် မြောက်ဦးမြို့ရှိ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနိက အဆောက်အဦးများတွင် အလှဆင်ထားသော စဉ့်ချပ်များအကြောင်းကို မြောက်ဦးခေတ် သမိုင်း၊ နိုင်ငံရေးနှင့် ယဉ်ကျေးမှု အခြေအနေများနှင့် ချိန်ထိုး၍ လေ့လာသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ စဉ့်ပြုလုပ်သည့် အတတ်ပညာကို မည်သို့ မည်ပုံ ကျွမ်းကျင်တတ်မြောက်ခဲ့ကြောင်းကို ဒေသတွင်းအခြား ခေတ်ပြိုင် စဉ့်လုပ်ငန်းများနှင့် ချင့်ချိန် လေ့လာသွားပါမည်။ ယခင်လေ့လာခဲ့သော သုတေသနများသည် မြောက်ဦးခေတ် ဗိသုကာနှင့် အနုပညာရပ်များအပေါ် အဓိကဇောင်းပေးခဲ့ပီး စဉ့်အတတ်ပညာမည်သို့ ရရှိတတ်မြောက်ခဲ့ကြောင်း လေ့လာရန်လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ နှိုင်းယှဉ်လေ့လာ ချက်များအရ ရခိုင် စဉ့်ချပ်များပေါ်ရှိ ပန်းခက်ပန်းနွယ်၊ ဂျီဩမေထြီ ဟန်ပန် ဒီဇိုင်းများနှင့် တိရိစ္ဆာန် ကိုယ်နေဟန်ထား ပုံစံများသည် အစ္စလမ်မစ် အနုပညာ လက်ရာများနှင့် တူညီသော အင်္ဂါရပ်များစွာတွေ့ရပါသည်။ အစ္စလမ်ဘာသာရေး အဆောက်အဦးများတွင် စဉ့်ချပ် အလှဆင်သောဓလေ့သည် မြောက်ဦးစဉ့်ချပ် အလှဆင်မှု ဓလေ့အပေါ်တွင် လွှမ်းမိုးမှုရှိခဲ့ပြီး ၎င်းနည်းပညာမှာ အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ င်္ဘဂလားဒေသမှ ဆင်းသက် လာသည်ဟု ယူဆရ နိုင်ကြောင်းကို ယခုစာတမ်းတွင် ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြသွားပါမည်။

Baltic-Black Sea Region as a Resilient Region: Political and Security Aspects

The conceptual bases of resilience in modern political science are analyzed, including the key conceptual approaches that are used in academic studies for understanding the policy of resilience, characterizing the reaction of subjects to stress or threat of any kind and origin. The concept of resilience is applied to analyze the cooperation among the Baltic-Black Sea countries as a regional interaction model which should be formed in order to reduce or avoid security crises. The Baltic-Black Sea countries have developed and formed strong ties in different dimen­sions among one another, opening an opportunity for intellectual adventures in the area of the conceptualization of their interaction modes under the regional cooperation frameworks. Based upon the analyzed doctrinal views and available documentary backgrounds on resilience in the UN and the EU, the possible visions and scenarios for the creation of the Baltic-Black Sea region as a resilient one are given. The existing and potential obstacles to cooperation in the region are highlighted. The main threats and challenges for the Baltic-Black Sea region at present are investigated.

Regional Security Assessment of Integrated Energy Systems with Renewables in China: A Grid-Connected Perspective

Stable and reliable integrated energy systems are one of the major issues related to sustainable regional and national energy development. Because most existing studies are conducted on whole countries, few address the effects of regional interaction and renewable energy. Therefore, a natural disaster risk assessment model (NDRAM) combined with spatial models is used as a general systematic tool to assess and resolve regional energy security, based on a framework of resources, generation, transmission, marketing and consumption, with 17 metrics. In particular, energy systems were treated as organic connected-units and their security status was regarded as a combined result of potential hazard and system vulnerability. The proposed method was applied to evaluate and classify the security situation of 31 Chinese provinces in 2016. The results showed that transmission had the most significant impact among five major risk sources. The closer grid connections have a stronger ability to deal with risks among regions, where renewables consumption could be better stimulated cross-regionally. In terms of a regional perspective, there is still a gap among different regions, and eastern China presented higher energy risk status. The most energy-hazard provinces are mainly in the east provinces with well-developed levels in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. The least energy-vulnerable provinces are mainly in the abundant natural resources regions such as Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Xinjiang. The NDRAM-based general model provides a systematic tool for quantitative assessment of regional energy security with a full accounting of regional interaction and renewable energy issues, which may help to develop clean energy, optimize system infrastructure and improve scientific management.