Regional integration: social philosophy analysis

Abstract

Regional integration is widely discussed in contemporary social philosophy. In the course of the discussions, there are issues like the essence of the integration process, its initiators, reasons, goals, as well as the integration Association peculiarities of development and functioning are discussed. There is no definite definition for what can be called a successful regional integration. This paper studies regional integration processes, their peculiarities. We mention the features describing regional integration associations and examine the definitions of regional integration concepts given by different scientists. According to the results of analysis, we give the definition of regional integration which provides a new look on integration processes. This definition makes it possible to re-evaluate the success of regional integration associations.