ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

• Main Authors: CORINA GRIBINCEA, SUSAN KHALDOUN KESSEI
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alfred Nobel University Publisher 2020-03-01
• Series: Êvropejsʹkij Vektor Ekonomìčnogo Rozvitku
• Subjects: integration; disintegration; regional integration; globalization; information technology (it)
• Online Access: https://eurodev.duan.edu.ua/images/PDF/2020/2/4.pdf

Integration is a process that is multifaceted and dynamic. In the modern world, integration and its opposite-disintegration-coexist or change each other concurrently at each point of the growth of countries and of integration associations. If incorporation, from the complementarity of the economies of the participating countries, makes the advantages of integrating disparate parts into a single whole, then disintegration weakens their mutual dependence. The new system of integration should ensure, in general, active human growth. The article explores the key directions of modernization that are appropriate to the Sustainable Development Strategy, allowing, through maintaining national identity and traditional spiritual values, a shift in the living conditions of the population. The processes for choosing life strategies, which is directly influenced by either integration or the other, are transformed by ideas about the environment, culture, and themselves. The task of disintegration is not only to oppose integration, but to create momentum for a new space for regional configuration. The processes of integration and disintegration in the world’s modern political system are becoming more common. In a globalized world, the article analyses the key causes of modern processes of disintegration and integration. Due to internal and external causes, there are multiple forms and manifestations of disintegration. Some of the most important problems facing, for instance, EU countries in the process of further integration were listed, according to the findings of a poll sponsored by the European Commission. In summary, the article concludes that the key reasons for these problems today are the inconsistencies between the decisions taken by national and supranational institutions in the integration union, the lack of trust in the integration union by the EU community, which does not feel a sense of participation in decision-making, and the ability to influence the activities of supranational authorities. The threats of radical changes that can be associated with the erosion of local social and cultural identity, the devaluation of traditional spiritual values, etc., are also characterized by globalization processes and their complexities of incorporation into modern society.