Introduction

In recent years, the modern world  is increasingly characterized as unstable, dynamic,  prone to crises: financial and economic , socio-political, socio-cultural, humanitarian, ecological, anthropological[1]. The world architectonics of a New Era is losing its former fragmentation, local isolation, becoming fragile and unsafe that forces the mankind to think about its common destiny and the way of sustainable development in terms of regionalization and globalization[2]. Nation-state centralized paradigm of development is being replaced by regional and transregional paradigms of integration. The paradigm shift actualizes the search for a new humanitarian and scientific image of the world and the innovative methods of its research and construction[3].

The issues of transborderness in a New Era for sustainable development come to the fore due to a  newly emerging forms of integration: within transregional entities of BRICS, Arctic region, Eurasian Union, Belt and Road Initiative in different parts of the World and even in other spacial dimensions, like Internet, AL, open space etc.  Thus, in the context of global transformations, development paradigms transition , there is a special interest in the problems of the cognitive methodology of transbordeness phenomenon  complicated by new factors: IR, global governance, universal human  values, cultural and civilization modernization, economic models ESG -principle shifts, innovative knowledge –based development[4].

At the moment, there is no generally accepted definition and common interpretation of the concept of transborderness. Representatives of different branches of science have their own vision of the phenomenon. So as there is no well developed indicators scales of management for sustainable development and innovative models of such regional systems[5].

Accordingly, it is necessary to develop multidisciplinary dialogue  in the field of Transborder Studies for better understanding the forming reality and find the tools, skills and to construct and manage it. There is no doubt that synergy of humanitarian, social and natural scientific methods should be part of Transborder Studies for sustainable growth. It is also the controversially question, how multiculturalism intercivilizationalism comprehensiveness of a new transborderness could influence standard economical and national unique models of development. Joining our efforts, of scientists from different continents and scientific branches contributed to better understanding the essence and principles of a new transborderness[6].

Suggested topics

The Editors emphasize that research for the forthcoming Special Issue “Trans-borderness in a New Era: Integration, Identities and Cooperation for Sustainable Development” can be fully interdisciplinary. SI welcomes papers with a focus on a combination of methodology of Cross–Border Studies, Area/Regional Studies, Spatial Economy and Management, through the lens of Regionalism and Globalism; economical, ecological, political and cultural aspects of transborder cooperation and Transborder regions construction for Sustainable Development, etc.

Suggested contributions to the “BRICS Journal of Economics” Special Issue on “Trans-borderness in a New Era: Integration, Identities and Cooperation for Sustainable Development” include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Trans-border Systems: Foresight Studies and Modeling
• Innovations in Spatial Development Management: Transborder Corridors, Bridges, Belts and Roads, Special Zones, etc.
• Regional Culture and Spatial development (economics, innovation, business, entrepreneurship, tourism)
• Representative Regionalism and Cross-border Interraction
• Trans-borderness in Eurasia: Building Corridors and Platforms for Co-development
• Trans-borberness in Africa: Cooperation for Peace and Development
• Trans-borderness in South America: Integration for Development
• BRICS: Transregional and Interregional Interaction Studies
• Border Urbanism: Twin Cities and Border towns
• Belt and Road trans-borderness in the Era of Ecological Civilization
• Belt and Road trans-borderness towards carbon neutrality

Submission Deadline:

01 May 2025

Publishing fees:

According to the Journal regulation: free publication, free open-access. For the format of Paper and other instruction, please refer to Journal Homepage https://brics-econ.arphahub.com/

Submission Procedure

According to Journal regulation: free publication, free open-access

For the format of Paper and other instruction, please refer to Journal Homepage https://brics-econ.arphahub.com/

Articles would be accepted in English.

Contact
The editors of the Special Issue are happy to discuss initial ideas for papers, and can be contacted directly to Dr. Tatiana Kuchinskaya kuchinskayatn@zabgu.ru, Dr. Su Limei  slm0451@163.com and Dr. Alina Steblyanskaya  alina_steblyanskaya@hrbeu.edu.cn

1.     Kuchinskaya T. N. Open Borders Towns Development as an Implementing Instrument of Chinese “Go Global” Strategy (by the Example of Cooperation in China’s Northeast and Russia’s Southeast Transborder Region) // International Journal of Current Chinese Studies / Ed. by E.R. Ardanaz.– Bilbao (Spain): Lu Xun Center for Chinese Studies. 2011. № 2. P. 179-197. RID:120415053774-1 orcid.org/0000-0002-6335-3159 H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online Announcement ID: 178235

2.     Kolpakova T.V., China’s “New Regionalism” as a Mechanism to Strengthen the Influence of China in the Global Integration Processes: An Example of Eurasian Economic Union // International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, – 2015, – 5 (Special Issue). – P. 109-115. EID: 2-s2.0-84949799083.

3.     Kuchinskaya T. N., Abramova N.A., Ni Jiaojiao. Transborder Culture and Regionalism: Cultural and Civilizational dimensions of Sino-Russian Interaction in Transborder Area in Context of One Belt - One Road Initiative // Learning to be Human: Proceedings of XXIV World Congress of Philosophy. Beijing 13-20 August 2018. Section 61. Philosophy of culture. http://162.105.180.43/WCP/IC/UploadIndex

4.     Ni Jiaojiao  Kuchinskaya T. N  (2017) Cultural Branding in Representative Practices of China's Soft Power // Discourse-P DOI: 10.17506/DIPI.2017.2829.34.115120

5.     Steblyanskaya A, Wang Z, Bragina Z. Financial Sustainable Growth Theory as a Result of Interaction with Energy,Social and Environmental Factors. Financ Theory Pract. 2019;98:134–52.

6.     Yan J, Feng L, Denisov A, Steblyanskaya A, Oosterom JP. Erratum: Correction: Complexity theory for the modern Chinese economy from an information entropy perspective: Modeling of economic efficiency and growth potential (PloS one (2020) 15 1 (e0227206)). PLoS One. 2020;15:e0230165.

Keywords: Special Issue

SI Guest Editor

About the Theme Editors

Tatiana Kuchinskaya, Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture), PhD (Political Sciences), Professor of International Law and International Relations at International Faculty of Law and Business, Associate Professor of Oriental Studies Department, Transbaikal State University, Russia. Her research focuses on the regionalization and globalization processes in Spatial Development Management, Regional Studies, Chinese Area Studies, Cultural regionalism, trans-border, border regions sustainable development through the lens of sociocultural approach. She has published more than 150 academic papers in Russian and English, among others, in the International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues (2015), International Journal of Current Chinese Studies (2011), Problemy Dalnego Vostoka (2011), Manuscript (2021), Sociodinamics (2021), Discourse-P (2017), Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences (2024), etc. She is the author of scientific monographs “Chinese Regionalism: Scociocultural aspects” (2017) and “Sociocultural Space of Transborder region as Russia and China Co-Development Resource” (2012) (In Russ.) Tatiana Kuchinskaya is a member of the Association for the Development of Sinology (Russia), a member of editorial and review boards of Russian journal "Transbaikal State University Journal " (K1), scientific editor of the journal "Russia and China: Issues of strategic Interactions", member of the Dissertation Council on Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture at Transbaikal State University, member of the Russian Society " Znaniye (Knowledge)", Board Member of Associations of Russian Scientists in China, Regional Branch of the Professorial Assembly, member of the Federal Register of experts in  scientific and technical sphere of the Ministry of Higherr Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6335-3159

Tatiana Kuchinskaya can be contacted at: kuchinskayaTN@zabgu.ru, kuchinskaya_t@mail.ru

Sun Limei

SI Guest Editor

Sun Limei, PhD (Economics, HEU, China), MBA (HEU, China), Associate Professor of Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management at Harbin Engineering University. She has been engaged in research work in the fields of financial volatility modeling, environmental finance, financial market innovation management and other fields for a long time. She has published 5 journal papers indexed by SCI and SSCI, 14 Chinese core papers, 1 EI journal paper, and 1 conference paper. She has published more than 10 papers in core journals such as CSSCI, 2 books and 3 textbooks. As the project leader, she presided over one National Social Science Fund project, one Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Youth Fund project, one high-level scientific research guidance special characteristic liberal arts plan project, one Heilongjiang Provincial Social Science Fund project, and several Central University Basic Business Fee Fund projects. As a key member, she participated in and completed 10 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation project, the National Soft Science Project, the National Social Science Fund, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Humanities and Social Science Project. He has won 3 first prizes, 1 third prize (ranked first), and 1 outstanding work award in Heilongjiang Province for outstanding achievements in social sciences. Visiting scholar at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO), Australia. She serves as a director of the Heilongjiang Management Society and an anonymous reviewer of the Applied Economics journal.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-9586

Sun Limei can be contacted at: slm0451@163.com

Dr. Alina Steblyanskya, PhD, Associate professor, School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University (China, Harbin). Her research interests concerns complex economics, energy efficiency, environmental economics, sustainable financial growth, green environmental finance, green technology management and technology entrepreneurship. She has master degree (honors) in Economics from Moscow State University of Food Production (Russia), MBA (honors) from Kingston University (UK). She received his PhD (honors) from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in China. She has 15 years’ experience at the biggest companies as Financial director, Head of the social affairs department. She has published more than 50 academic papers (in English, Chinese and Russian) in such journals as “PLOS ONE”, “Energy Strategy Reviews”, “Sustainability”, “Energies”, “Environmental and Sustainability Indicators”, etc. She is a member of the editorial board of the “BRICS Economic Journal”, “Finance: Theory and Practice”, “Foresight and STI Government”, etc. She is a member of the Systems Economics Association, member of the Committee on Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the China Society of Technology and Economics, member of China Logistics Society and Member of the Board of Directors of Harbin Sustainable Development Research Center. She is head of the China’ Ministry of Science and Technology high level experts project and head of the Fundamental Research Project from the Central Chinese Universities. She is participated in the five China national-level projects as a key member.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7476-3268

Alina Steblyanskaya can be contacted at: alina_steblyanskaya@hrbeu.edu.cn