Approach to the study of economic security of the border region as a scientific category

The article substantiates the author's approach to the scientific category «economic security of the border region» as an integral system based on the allocation of its general, and specific functions and the definition of the content of thesefunctions. The matrix of interactions of functions of ensuring economic security of the border region and the removal of interactions of the subject and object of ensuring economic security of the border regions is presented. Sustainable development of the border region is considered as an object of ensuring its economic security.