REASONS FOR INTEGRATION OF MACEDONIA WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION Cover Image

ЗОШТО ИНТЕГРИРАЊЕ НА МАКЕДОНИЈА ВО ЕУ?
REASONS FOR INTEGRATION OF MACEDONIA WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): Vančo Uzunov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Центар за регионални истражувања и соработка Студиорум
Keywords: EU integration; economic policy

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the subject of the contemporary international economic relations, brought in the context of the international economic integration in general, as well as with the specific case of the Republic of Macedonia. The case of Macedonia is perceived in the economic integrative context into the European Union. The basic intention of the article is to make a short analysis (or a presentation) of the economic trends which characterize the contemporary world, especially the trend of the regional international economic integration. Amongst the plurality of aspects contained in the subject of regional international economic integration, the article goes into more details in the determinants of the process, as well as with the organizational modes by which it is characterized. The article, of course, has no intention to penetrate into all corresponding issues comprehensively, but it is an attempt to emphasize the starting points which might and, in fact, will be the basic dimensions of the economic integration process of Macedonia towards the European Union. The article is organized as follows: first the effects (or the outcomes) of the contemporary globalization process are being discussed; next, shortly, the same concerns the features of the regional international economic integration; next, follows a short presentation of the existing position of Macedonia on the world market; finally the framework of the strategic integration route of Macedonia into the EU, brought into, or derived out of, the previous context is touched.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 43-66
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Macedonian