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The socio-economic situation of the contemporary world keeps changing dynamically. One can observe processes of both integration and disintegration occurring at political, cultural and economic planes and at the level of both states and regions. Examples of disintegration at a state level include the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Even more commonly found in Europe and Asia is the regional dimension of disintegration. Those processes vary in genesis, nature and intensity. On the other hand, one can also observe integration processes. They, too, occur at the level of states and regions. At the state level, various international organisations tend to be set up. Examples include the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Economic Union, etc. At the regional level, the nature of the integration can be: - political-administrative, by combining units into larger ones (very frequent in Russia) or by setting up new ones (the administrative reform in Poland); - economic (international economic links - trade and investment); and - cultural (ethnic, religious, linguistic associations). The state-level processes of integration and disintegration often lead to a dramatic reorientation of relations. Hence there arise questions. What is the present-day state of those relations? What are real-life, not only declared, inter-state relations, and real-life regional relations? How have social, economic and political relations changed at the level of states and regions since the fall of the Iron Curtain? And finally, how to study and measure the extent of integration or disintegration of states and regions in the spatial dimension? A search for answers to these questions is the chief goal of this conference. Its organisers are: ● Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland); ● Russian Human Geographers Association (ARGO); and ● Committee of Geographical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.