CROSS-BORDER TRUST SPACE: ATTEMPTS TO INSTITUTIONALIZE

Abstract

The weak effectiveness of international institutions in resolving conflicts, the instability of international partnerships in the face of increasing international opposition for markets, natural resources, human resources, and territories have placed the issue of confidence at the head of almost all areas of international cooperation, updating the search for mechanisms to form and strengthen the trust. Trust in international cooperation has become an independent object of influence and regulation. Most modern studies of trust in the context of the development of cross-border processes and integrations have the character of describing the problem, without attempting its extensive political and sociological analysis. The creation of the cross-border trust space itself was one of the effects of globalization and the development of cross-border partnerships as well as the emergence of cross-border actors influencing on international collaboration. A set of legal, organizational and technical conditions agreed upon by member states to ensure trust in the interstate exchange of data and electronic documents between authorized bodies is defined as the cross-border trust space. At the same time, the problem is much broader and deeper, since the institutionalization of trust in the cross-border space implies that the actors of cooperation will follow the institutions adopted by the participants of the partnership. This article is the result of the author’s comprehension and research into the phenomenon of the institutionalization of trust in a cross-border space.