Economic security of Tajikistan in the context of the Eurasian integration

The current situation in the world demonstrates a need to find new ways to ensure the security of countries with developing small economies, like the Republic of Tajikistan. In view of the limited resources of such countries, an obvious option for maintaining the stability and ensuring further development is active participation in integration processes. In this regard, the author aims to determine the need for integration for Tajikistan and its possible prospects. The author touches upon a problem of ensuring the national economic security through ensuring the economic security within the integration, and also explores possibilities of Tajikistan's participation in the Eurasian integration. The article is based on the application of the method of criteria-based assessment of the level of the economic security and on the use of dirigisme concept approaches to the development of integration processes. The author concludes that the integration of Tajikistan with the economies of the Eurasian countries has actually taken place, that there is a need for their further integration to eliminate existing threats to the economic security, and that it is necessary to pursue a targeted foreign policy based on the active position of the republic in order to eliminate internal and external obstacles for integration. The author proposes to use the integration model “from simple to complex”, based on the development of a system for the implementation of joint mini-projects, which allows to identify the commonality of interests and prospects of individual areas of cooperation at the lowest resource and time costs. The study can serve as a basis for further theoretical and practical work in the field of ensuring the economic security on a collective basis and promoting integration processes in Central Asia. The results make it possible to adjust the foreign policy of Tajikistan to ensure the economic security of the country through the integration. 

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