Affirmative Action in Regional Policy and its Consequences for the National Safety

Abstract

A regional policy is one of the important tools of supporting the state territorial integrity. Approaches and principles applied, and methods and tools employed are directly dependent on the historical track and socio-economic reality within a country, as well as on the geopolitical situation in the world. A regional policy of any contemporary state, including the Russian State, should take into account the challenges engendering threats to the national safety and territorial integrity of a country under the turbulent conditions and in the situation of the world order re-formatting. The basic concepts of a regional policy in the geopolitical turbulence circumstances should be guided by the strategic goal of preserving the national unity. Use of affirmative action within the regional policy of contemporary states, according to the authors’ opinion, engenders some threat to the territorial integrity because it generates certain prerequisites for separatism. The analysis of the cases of affirmative action used by some foreign states within the framework of their regional policy helps to estimate potential threats that the Russian State can meet with while realizing its regional policy.