Issue ? 33. August 2012

Concession As an Instrument of National Security

Graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: kozhin_sv@mail.ru

The article substantiates the necessity of attracting foreign investments into the Russian infrastructure. Comparing privatization and public-private partnerships (PPP) as possible ways to attract investment, the gives preference to PPP, for security reasons. The concession as one of the forms of PPP seems to be the best solution for attracting foreign investments into Russian infrastructure and providing national security. The author examines the main risks perils of raising foreign investment as well as the features of concessions which contribute to minimizing those risks.

Keywords

Public-private partnership, concession, infrastructure, foreign direct investment, national security, economic security.