International Legal Regulation and the Boundaries of State Sovereignty

Review: The role of international law regulation of different relations is rapidly increasing in the modern era of globalization. As a result, we are witnessing hot debates concerning the phenomenon of supranationality that has recently appeared in the sphere of international relations and its relation to the category of state sovereignty. This phenomenon triggers a lot of changes in the sphere of legal regulation of relations on a global scale. With regard to the question of the influence of supranationality on the sovereignty of a state, the author concludes the following. Observing the transfer to the bodies of an international organization only certain sovereign powers carried out by member states as a result of "supranationality", we are witnessing the deformation of notions of sacredness and the absolute sovereignty of a state in its classical meaning. As a result, there is a risk of de facto state sovereignty limitations in terms of its completeness and absolute character. In addition, as a result of the analysis of researchers' opinions with regard to the named issues and identification of main features of supranationality, the author concludes that the most preferable model out of two existing models is a non-institutional model that embodies, in author's opinion, extraorganizational contractual form of international integration. Currently there is a trend of increasing the role and impact of international law in a national legal system not only in the area of trade regulation, but also in other fields (for example, in the field of treating spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste). As a result, the existing legal systems are being harmonized, which results in diminishing the uniqueness and identity of states and peoples that are indispensable requirements for ensuring their national security in the modern world. Supranational legal regulation takes place, inter alia, under the auspices of protection of human rights and freedoms. However, such a slogan apparently serves only as a formal facade of an international legal movement, and, apparently, it has no right to exist because of an equal and indivisible existence of three groups of interests "personality-society-state". The author concludes: to resist the named processes that exclude the progressive development of countries and peoples and their prosperity, states should ensure a reasonable combination of tools of national and international legal regulation that do not allow mixing spheres of their actions, and to develop internal mechanisms for protecting rights and interests of participants of social relations.

international law, domestic law, international organization, supranationality, suprastatehood, sovereignty, state, integration association, legal system, convergence of law, harmonization, national security

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