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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">intertrends</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Международные процессы</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1728-2756</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1811-2773</issn><publisher><publisher-name>AEFIR</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">intertrends-876</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИКСИРУЕМ ТЕНДЕНЦИЮ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>CATCHING A TREND</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Балансирование малых и средних государств</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Balancing of Small and Medium-Sized Nations</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Скриба</surname><given-names>Андрей</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Skriba</surname><given-names>Andrey</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Скриба Андрей Сергеевич – преподаватель Факультета мировой экономики и мировой политики Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики»</p><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Mr Andrey Skriba – Lecturer, Faculty of World Economy and World Politics, National Research University “Higher School of Economics</p><p>Moscow, 101000</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">askriba@gmail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Higher School of Economics</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>17</day><month>09</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>88</fpage><lpage>100</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Скриба А., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Скриба А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Skriba A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.intertrends.ru/jour/article/view/876">https://www.intertrends.ru/jour/article/view/876</self-uri><abstract><p>В работе исследуются два традиционных реалистских типа поведения – балансирование и примыкание. Исторически политика балансирования приписывалась главным образом крупным государствам – великим державам, которые старались сдерживать друг друга и тем самым поддерживать в международной системе равновесие. Другим – малым и средним – странам была более свойственна политика примыкания, в силу их неспособности самостоятельно противостоять внешнему давлению со стороны великих держав.</p><p>Распад биполярной системы внес в это положение вещей существенные коррективы. В частности, малые и средние страны получили новые возможности балансировать внешние угрозы собственному суверенитету. Одной из наиболее наглядных сфер проявления их политики балансирования стала региональная интеграция. С одной стороны, она несла для этих стран выгоды, особенно если предполагала близкое сотрудничество и снятие торговых барьеров с экономически более успешными и сильными государствами. Однако, с другой стороны, такое сближение создавало для малых и средних стран угрозы. Отсутствие экономических границ усиливало их зависимость от более сильных партнеров, а создание наднациональных органов превращало эту зависимость в политическую, поскольку наднациональные институты, как правило, склонны ориентироваться на интересы наиболее крупных и экономически влиятельных субъектов интеграции.</p><p>Цель статьи – изучить новые поведенческие особенности малых и средних стран в контексте интенсификации региональных интеграционных процессов. Показано, что балансирование и примыкание выступают неотъемлемыми составляющими интеграционной политики данного типа государств. С течением времени соотношение выгод и издержек от осуществления одной из двух стратегий может меняться. Когда у малых и средних стран появляются достаточные ресурсы для реализации политики балансирования, их интересам может начать соответствовать торможение процессов интеграции.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article studies two traditional realist types of behavior ­ balancing and bandwagoning. Historically, the policy of balancing was typical to large states – the Great Powers who tried to restrain each other and thus maintain balance of power in the international system. Others – small and medium countries were more likely to bandwagon, because of their inability to resist external pressure from the Great Powers independently.</p><p>The collapse of the bipolar system introduced significant adjustments. In particular, small and medium countries now have new opportunities to balance external threats. Integration has become a process where it became very clear. On the one hand, integration gave some benefit to these countries, especially within close cooperation and removal of trade barriers with economically more successful and powerful states. However, on the other hand, such a disproportionate convergence created for small and medium countries certain threats. Lack of economic borders increased their dependence on the stronger partners, while creation of supranational branches of power moved this dependence on a political level, as supranational institutions, of course, took into account interests of major subjects of integration primarily.</p><p>Taking into account that processes of regional integration have been coming increasingly intensive during the last decade, the author targeted to study in this context new behavior of small and medium countries. It was found that balancing and bandwagoning are two components of their integration policy. The ratio of balancing and bandwagoning influences development of the integration process. When small and medium countries accumulate sufficient resources to build the balancing policy, integration slows down. It means that for the successful integration with small and medium countries needs a permanent dominance of bandwagoning over balancing in their integration policy.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>политический реализм</kwd><kwd>региональная интеграция</kwd><kwd>политика балансирования</kwd><kwd>малые и средние страны</kwd><kwd>политика примыкания</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>realist theories</kwd><kwd>regional integration</kwd><kwd>balancing policy</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Бордачев Т. В. Интеграция и суверенитет в 21 веке (Доклад). – 2013. http://www.soyuzinfo.am/rus/analitics/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=325.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">(2013) World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database. 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