Transformations of Global Cooperation Processes as a Strategy of Sustainable Social Development in the Context of Research and Education

Abstract

Globalization involves the merging of societies and economies (and all their institutions – including educational and scientific) of all countries into a single socio-economic system with the prospect of more effective political coordination among them. There is a need for a new type of social contract between society and citizens, which must necessarily be included in modern institutional systems. This contract manifests itself differently on the basis of different national cultures, so the socio-economic development should be based on intercultural dialogue between different countries, social systems and civic institutions. The internationalization and integration of higher education in the global and international aspect raises many new questions for theory and practice: what patterns, forms, methods of management are universal, and which of them are specific. It is assumed that it is necessary to identify and conceptualize the essential interdependence of systemic and functional characteristics of the institutional dimension of global transformations of world development.