The Regional Resource Potential as a Factor in Ensuring Economic Security at the Meso-Level

The article discusses the organizational and methodological foundations of ensuring economic security at the meso-level and its relationship with the resource potential of the region. The role of the resource potential in socio-economic development of the region is considered. The object of the study is associated with various components of the resource potential of the Rostov region and its economic security. The authors studied the characteristics of the Rostov region in two sections: determining the level of economic security at the mesolevel and assessing its resource potential with establishing the relationship between them on the basis of available official statistical data. The findings on the economic security level in the region are not final. This underlines the necessity for further scientific development, which will logically continue the methods for assessing the economic security of the Russian regions considered in the article.