NEW FORMS OF INTERCIVILIZATIONAL COMPETITION BETWEEN TERRITORIES
The paper uses structural analysis to explore the existing conceptual and methodological tools of competition between territories with different management cultures in order to identify the forms of competitive struggle and evaluate the variety of tools used in this struggle in the conditions of two oppositely directed processes - globalization and traditionalization of the world economy. The author considers strategies of intercivilizational competition, including intercivilizational borrowings of management culture elements. It is shown that territorial management systems are institutions that provide social and infrastructural services and that are under increasing and accelerating competition for resources and influence, both on the part of other territorial entities and other (non-territorial) commercial and non-profit organizations. The paper deals with issues of symmetric and asymmetric forms of competition between territories with different management traditions. It is shown that the European, Islamic, Indian, Far Eastern, Latin American, Russian and other economic traditions of management with their completely different sets of authentic elements of the economic system go into intense competition not only for resources but also for the right to implement their management culture. Studying the competition between national and subnational territories, the author characterizes models of economic development of regions: the region as a market, the region as a quasi state, the region as a quasi corporation, and the region as a society. The author has explored methodological and instrumental means of national and subnational territories management. The paper reveals considerable asymmetry of these means for the model of the region as a market and the region as a quasi state with a substantial deficit for the model of the region as a society.