%0 Journal Article %T Trans-Border Regions in the System of the Regional Hierarchy: the Systemic Approach %A Fedorov M. %A Korneevets V. %J Baltic Region %D 2009 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %R 10.5922/2079-8555-2009-2-3 %X The article positions trans-border regions that are formed in the course of cooperation between the administrative, territorial and municipal institutions of neighbouring countries or have similar important characteristics, in the hierarchical system of regions. The authors prove trans-border regions to be a type of international regions and consider specific characteristics of these regions using the Baltic region as an example. %K region %K hierarchy of regions %K international regions %K transnational regions %K cross-border regions %K political regions %K economic regions %K socio-cultural regions %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/e7f/Fedorov,%20Korneevets.pdf