Sustainable development of border areas as a subject of scientific research

Abstract

Sustainable development of border areas is a critical factor in ensuring the national security of Russia. In this regard, it is important to apply a number of research approaches to assess the state and identify positive changes occurring in this area. The relevance of the article is due to the problems of scientific support of these processes. Contemporary approaches to the consideration of aspects of sustainable development of border areas are analyzed in the context of this study. Based on the systematization of scientific publications, the least covered research areas are identified. More than that, topical issues that allow stakeholders to assess the sustainability of development of border areas are proposed.

International Cooperation of Universities in Assessing the Effectiveness of Agrarian Policies

“…The academic revolution that universities around the world are exposed to (Altbach et al 2018;Mihut et al 2017) makes the need of universities for cooperation objectively necessary. Regional universities have an important role to play in the development of the scientific issues of sustainable development of the Territories (Bobrovskaya et al 2019;Mezhov and Tarasova 2019). Their inclusion in the system of international cooperation, for example, on the basis of the BRICS University network, will be the key to dynamic development, a way to increase competitiveness in the world market of educational services (Neretina 2013;Oganesyan 2017;Smotrova 2019).…”