REGIONAL LEGAL ORDER: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE PHENOMENON AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT

INTRODUCTION If we try to define the word that was most often used in all forms of public discourse (scientific, political, philosophical, ideological, cultural, political, everyday, etc.) in the late twentieth and early twenty-FIRST centuries, and caused a huge range of (often diametrically opposed) opinions, arguments, emotions and feelings, then one of the unconditional nominees for the championship will be the category “globalization”. During this period, it somewhat pushed the already well-known specialists another common category“regionalization”. However, the dominant trend, as always, quite unexpectedly transformed the processes of modern social development in a new direction, asserting the understanding that regionalization is also becoming “global”. This convergence is due to the direct connection of “global regionalization” with the processes of universal forms of existence of human society and the resolution of global problems of our time. Trends of globalization, localization and regionalization reflect the dialectical unity of the main contradictions of social life that arise before humanity at the beginning of the XXI century, and according to experts, global problems are embodied at different levels of locality in accordance with the unique characteristics of each region. Therefore, our dependencies today, as rightly noted by S. Bauman, are completely global, however, our actions are still local 1 . This has become one of the causes of a kind of cognitive dissonance, which causes ideological, political, scientific contradictions and conflicts, and often generates destructive behavior of both individuals and human communities, large and small institutions regarding the perception of real or inspired risks of globalization, real or imaginary dangers. Regionalization of various spheres of life of modern society has become a phenomenon that has established itself as a subject of understanding of a whole range of sciences-geography, history, economics, ethnography,