Abstract:

In article it is shown that the international integration becomes the powerful instrument of the accelerated development and increase of competitiveness in the world market of member countries of integration groups. The author proves that the international economic integration is a process of accretion of economies of neighboring countries in a uniform economic complex on the basis of stable economic relations between their companies; regional economic integration as the most widespread, perhaps, will become an initial stage of global integration, i.e. merge of regional integration associations.

Keywords: integration, regional economy, merger of the states, economic union, globalism