2.1. International economic and political integration and deepening of the internationalization of economic life

In the second half of the twentieth century, leading the trend of development of economic links was international economic integration, which meets the new content of external economic policy - the subjects of international economic relations. This trend pohlyblyuyuchys remains dominant and the beginning of the XXI century.

Simplify, integration is defined as the process of uniting a group of countries to achieve common goals in economic, political, social and other spheres of life together. Theory of International Economic Relations sees the integration of complex socio-economic and political phenomenon. American economist B. Belashi expanded into scientific understanding and interpretation of the double integration - a process and as a state. Dual viewpoint is accepted and domestic scholars.

Economic integration as a process provides for joint activities to eliminate any form of discrimination of foreign partners in national economies. Hence, international economic integration is the highest level of internationalization of economic and commercial ties.

International economic integration as a condition manifested in mitigation, the leveling of differences between businesses in different countries - participants in international economic relations - based on the principles of the UN and other international organizations.

Under conditions of international economic integration ties between countries - participants of the integration process within subregions is based on a combination of common and national socio-economic and political interests. Thus the deepening and filled with new content and internationalization of economic and entrepreneurial activity: relationships between entities such activities, which represent different countries intehranty are implemented within the single market, economic space.

Within the world economy formed large zones of economic, trade effects, as represented by associations of leading developed countries and countries development. Based on the subregional, regional or inter-regional integration agreements they turn to integration groupings around which gather the other states that provide such groups rather influential role in world economy and world politics. Against this background comes into force trend towards globalization of world economy.

Thus the development of economic links now go in the direction of internationalization of economic activity that takes propagation in industrial civilization, through international economic and political integration into the globalizing world, the world economy.

Some idea of interdependence, mutual influence and mutual complementarity determining processes of modernity - internationalization, globalization and integration - provides a schematic diagram of Figure 1.

International economic integration has a special place in the system of international relations. Depending on the level of integration processes are changing the nature of trade, economic, scientific, technical, monetary and financial and other ties between EU and third countries intehrantamy, make adjustments in the international division of labor and international cooperation in the balance of power between the subjects economic links.

International economic integration is the result of a rather high level of internationalization of economic life. In addition, international economic integration is a qualitatively new stage and both forms of the internationalization of economic life in the world. This new stage of internationalization of the world economy means that firstly, productive forces development into country intehrantiv boundaries of national economies and, secondly, it shows rapprochement, mutual accommodation and cooperation of all national economic structures of complexes of several countries, united in integration groupings.

Hence, international economic integration is a qualitatively new stage of development and form of manifestation of the internationalization of world economy.

Summary of international economic integration identify:

- rapprochement, mutual adjustment, the interaction of national economies is based on common economic interests;

- cooperation on the basis of unification of economic systems and legal systems;

- barriers to trade and movement of production factors;

- a single economic space;

- monetary and financial cooperation on the basis of integration.

At the top / final stage of the integration process of becoming political: the future is determined by the nature of "statehood" of the integration of states.

The process of integration gradually leads to concerted intergovernmental / supranational policy in mutual economic relations, and in the relations with "third" countries.

In general terms, regional economic integration at  unity of a region or subregion needs caused by the development of productive forces and significant changes in the character of production relations. However, it is determined by the dynamics of scientific and technological revolution.

In the modern system of international economic relations takes effect globalization of economic integration, which makes integrating global development, which ultimately reduces the national economies into a single economic complex.

Integration creates a new relation of economic interests: national, international - regional or sub-regional and global - global level.

Decisive role of integration processes is a private enterprise, the rapid growth of economic power and influence in world economic power relations of transnational corporations (TNCs) and transnational banks (TNB), the formation of transnational financial-industrial groups (TNFPH). Common ground is to deepen the integration process of international division labor and globalization of world economy called  formalized.