Eurasian Macro-Region: Choosing a Sustainable Way of Development

Abstract

The article substantiates the need to choose a new paradigm for the macro-regional development of Eurasia, which, along with other macro-regions, has found itself in recent decades in a situation where the old theoretical platform for regional development has ceased to correspond to modern conditions of economic and socio-political reality. The system paradigm proposed as an alternative puts forward the principle of studying the region as a holistic system based on the analysis of interconnections and relations between its individual components. This applies both to the internal relations of the system (economic, cultural, organizational, demographic, social and others), as well as interconnections with the environment external to the system. According to the authors, the growing role of economic sustainability is determined by the objective need to develop theoretical, methodological, and practical guidelines that would enable the process of transition to a sustainable development format.