Power and borders: the analytical excursus

In the face of growing trends of globalism, on the one hand, and regionalism, on the other, such state-building problems as territorial integrity and secession, federalism and autonomy, and the “center-periphery” relationship become particularly acute. The “common denominator” here is more and more often the thesis of R. Aron that the federation is a “civilized and voluntary version of the empire” 1. With the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia and the unification of Germany from the estimated use of the categories "empire", "imperialism", "imperial" as negative and "federation", "federalism", "federative" as positive both foreign and domestic political scientists refused.