The paper is devoted to emanation of a network order in the world economy under its current transition to postindustrial paradigm. This new order is described as a functional synthesis of hierarchic and market modes of social coordination, which suits both the globally modified communication...

The problem of Kaliningrad, in the form it has emerged after the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, stems from the region's ambivalent economic position of being simultaneously inside and outside the EU territory, with no international regulations existing to reconcile this conflict....