Abstract:
The rise of the integrated global economy is not a transitory process, limited to a certain period, but represents the continuation of a secular tendency, being the result of the fundamental changes that have taken place in the sphere of coverage and in the functional components of the economic activities. Economic and social phenomena such as the internationalization of production, the unprecedented intensification of international trade, the formation of global financial capital markets, persistence of underdevelopment and poverty, high unemployment rates and insufficient use of labor, polarization of wealth and poverty, trafficking and consumption illicit drugs, transnational crime, resource depletion and environmental degradation, are some of the main topics of the interaction of economies and states at international level.