Conceptual approaches in the study of cross-border cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan

Abstract

The transformational shifts taking place in the modern world under the influence of globalization
and regionalization make it necessary to comprehend the role of cross-border cooperation. The problem of
comprehensive interaction of border regions is quite new for political science. Despite comprehensive studies
on the problems of border regions, today there are many trends in the problems of cross-border cooperation.
Nevertheless, modern science has a certain set of methodologies, approaches, and concepts that serve as tools
for a comprehensive study of cross-border cooperation as a political phenomenon.
This article is also of interest from the point of view of the challenges facing the CIS countries in the context
of globalization. Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation play a significant role in them. Accordingly, the
importance of Russian-Kazakh cross-border (and interregional) cooperation is sharply increasing, reducing the
barrier function of the borderlands, and stimulating the economic integration of the two countries.
The experience of Russian-Kazakh cross-border cooperation of the late XX - early XXI centuries is of particular
interest through the prism of theories and concepts of international relations and makes it possible to identify
objective prerequisites, patterns of formation, development, which is currently acquiring a fundamentally new
quality.The article summarizes the existing theoretical and methodological aspects of cross-border cooperation in
modern conditions of globalization and regionalization