Economy of the north in the aspect of Russia's national security

• Published in: Economy of Region
• Main Author: Vitaliy Nikolaevich Lazhentsev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch 2012
• Subjects: the Arctic; the North; geopolitical and social economic situation; integration in geographical systems «South — North»; Regional economics. Space in economics; HT388; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17059/2012-2-5; https://doaj.org/article/4d11da45c4e04c21aa9272a2fbc50437

This paper reviews the following questions of studying of the North with reference to a problematics of national safety of Russia: economic maintenance of geopolitics in the zone of Arctic, optimization of distribution of mineral-raw, fuel and energy resources between the Russian and international markets, expansion of inter-regional technological cooperation, coordination of resourced and innovative strategy with representations about postindustrial economy, achievement of a condition of social well-being. The scientific explanation of the specified objects is aimed at formation of a special kind of state policy, notably — connection of separate parts of the country to the creation of the general bases of safe social and economic development. The economic-geographical analysis has allowed obtaining additional proofs on necessity, firstly, of maintenance of the North as an insurance reserve of a sustainable development of the country and, secondly, eliminating those reasons which could lead to undesirable position of the North as hypothetical destabilizing element of national economy.