SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-BORDER REGIONAL COOPERATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The problems of regional development in Ukraine today is increasingly associated with the intensification of cross-border cooperation. The majority of Ukrainian regions bordering with the border regions of other countries, that making cross-border cooperation by effective lever for regional development of our state under globalization. This primarily refers to those administrative units, whose area is tangent to the outer border of Ukraine with the EU, since in terms of European integration thanks to cross-border cooperation in these regions are improving not only the indicators of foreign trade in goods and services, but there is growth not only in attracting of foreign investment, but in the adaptation of European experience in business, management technologies, business ethics, social culture and standards of the formation of civil society.