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MANY EXPERTS call the 21st century an era of integration and unification. Integration processes at the interstate level proceed "through the formation of regional economic associations of states and coordination of their domestic and foreign economic policies."1 Regional integration is one of the most significant factors in current political affairs. Whereas the period from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century saw the formation of independent nation states, by the second half of the 20th century, this process was. Today, national economies are moving towards integration with each other, gradually forming a common market with more intensive movement of goods, capital, labor, services, and information.
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