Principles, criteria, and indicators for ensuring the economic security of integration processes in the EAEU

Aim. This work aimed to select a system of principles, criteria, and indicators for assessing the development of integration processes within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and identifying the growing threats of disintegration and conflict within the EAEU.

Objectives. The work seeks to study the systems of principles, criteria, and indicators used to assess the functioning of international integration associations, with consideration of their applicability to ensuring the economic security of integration processes within the EAEU.

Methods. We used methods of content analysis and logical-semantic analysis to systematize the conceptual framework and select principles, criteria, and indicators for conceptualizing a system for ensuring the security of integration processes within the EAEU. A systemic, process, and stakeholder approaches were used to select principles, criteria, and indicators.

Results. Emphasis is placed on the need to use groups of principles, criteria, and indicators that take into account the EAEU as a complex socio-economic system, integration as a process, as well as the general and specific interests of economic relations entities within the EAEU. The work identified groups of principles, criteria, and indicators that allow for the analysis and assessment of the state and changes in integration processes occurring within the EAEU, as well as the growth of threats that impact negatively such integration processes.

Conclusions. Ensuring the economic security of integration processes occurring within the EAEU requires the use of three groups of principles, criteria, and indicators that take into account the institutional systemic characteristics of the EAEU, the process-based nature of integration, and the economic interests of economic actors that differ from the national interests of the general population of the EAEU member states. Based on this, the principles, criteria, and indicators that must be used to ensure the economic security of integration processes occurring within the EAEU are formulated and substantiated when developing and implementing a set of measures to minimize the risk of disintegration of EAEU member states and the disruption of interstate cooperation in the future.

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