Border Security in Modern Customs Administration as an Organisational and Managerial Principle (US Case)

The article attempts to complex, systemic consideration of border management mechanisms. This question is analyzed by the author from the point of view of various research approaches for a comprehensive study of the organizational and functional nature of this phenomenon. The text gives the most pressing reasons for the transformation of border management processes in the modern world, as well as some significant threats and challenges to collective security in the global economy. The author focuses on North American management experience, as North American countries today demonstrate the highest productivity and innovation in border management and trade security. As the main conclusion of the article, we can cite the thesis that the necessary condition for effective border management in the modern world is interstate cooperation and international cooperation of administrative institutions and commercial organizations.

Foreign policy of the Czech Republic through the prism of historiography

The article analyzes the situation of research problems of formation and development of foreign policy of the Czech Republic in the works of Ukrainian and foreign researchers. The scientific problem attracts considerable interest of specialists in the field of international relations, because it is relevant and unstable. The article summarizes the new material on the research topic of historiography. The purpose of this article is to analyze the state of development of our research in domestic and foreign historiography. To achieve this goal, the author considered the bulk of the scientific literature on the foreign policy of the sovereign Czech Republic. For the objective disclosure of the topic by the author, the literature was distributed according to the problem principle. The development of international relations of the CEE countries in the post-communist period and the Czech Republic, in particular, was covered in many scientific and popular science works. Among foreign researchers, the author singles out mainly Czech, Slovak, German and British. Such an ethno-geographical number of scientists is due to the specifics of the geopolitical location of the Czech Republic. Ukrainian researchers were viewed through the prism of domestic foreign policy. The article presents an analysis of scientific research in the field of the following issues: general transformational transformations in the CEE region, formation of the sovereign Czech Republic and national policy, experience of integration into the European Union and NATO, Visegrad cooperation, development of Czech-Slovak relations and formation of Ukrainian-Czech interstate cooperation. To fully and comprehensively cover the research problem, the author used a significant amount of material from periodicals in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. A review of the works used by domestic and foreign researcher’s shows that the vast majority of publications raise general questions about the course of domestic political transformation processes in the field of political science, economic or cultural research.

International legal problems of extradition in the united states:theory and practice

Russia consistently supports the return of interstate cooperation to the framework of generally recognized principles and norms of international law with the central coordinating role of the United Nations. Russia insists on stopping the "hunting" of American special services for Russian citizens in third countries, returning them to their homeland, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in the United States under far-fetched pretexts. It is necessary to correct the problems artificially created by Washington with cooperation on legal assistance, to normalize the conditions for the functioning of our diplomatic and consular institutions in the United States.

Роль Шанхайской организации сотрудничества в развитии транспортного и логистического потенциала стран Центральной Азии

The publication examines actual issues of interstate economic cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in the framework of building new transport and communication routes. There was provided the analysis of the SCO normative legal documents in the terms of transport regulation, both road and rail, there were outlined the prospects and opportunities which emerge as a result of the signing of bilateral and multilateral agreements between the members of the Organization. The author describes the current situation of international transport communication routes and also reveals in details the initiatives proposed by Uzbekistan, pointing out his key role in the formation of new Eurasian transit corridors and arteries. Considering the issue of modern Eurasian interstate cooperation mechanisms’conjugation from an standpoint of creating and improving transport and logistics infrastructure, the author notes the possibility of implementing the initiatives of Russia and China on the SCO platform. Combination of such potential integration projects as the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) on the Shanghai Organization platform will create a new model of economic cooperation in the Russia-China-Central Asia triangle. The article also examines the measures taken by the SCO member states to build new and modernize existing road and rail routes on their own territories and on the territory of neighboring states. In the conclusion, it is pointed out that further positive shifts in the developing of the Shanghai Organization transport sector will largely depend on the ability of its participants to take a coordinated policy in the transport and logistics sector.

TRANSBOUNDARY ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION OF KAZAKHSTAN AND RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The article examines interstate cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia on transboundary environmental issues. An analysis of the environmental policy of Kazakhstan and Russia is carried out, and the key norms of the two countries’ environmental legislation are examined to determine the foundations and mechanisms for solving shared environmental problems. The role and ongoing policy of Kazakhstan’s central state body in the environmental protection sphere as a tool for solving environmental problems is determined. The main reasons for the environmental problems of the Ural and Ishim river basins and the biological diversity of the border areas of Russia and Kazakhstan are discussed. Priority prospects for environmental cooperation are highlighted in relation to the countries’ common transboundary environmental problems, including cooperation potential within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Space.

Human Trafficking: Trends and Methods of Counteraction

One of the serious and serious crimes of an international nature is human trafficking, which requires effective and enhanced interstate cooperation, since this phenomenon has not bypassed any State in the world. Human trafficking is an international crime. This type of crime occupies a significant place in the structure of criminal business. The authors of the article analyze the norms of criminal law that identify this type of criminal offense.

The Key Directions of the Legal Development of the National Priorities of International Strategic Partnership

The main topic of the current issue of the journal “Legal Concept = Pravovaya Paradigma” – “The global transformations of the legal infrastructure of the modern state: trends in the inter-country interaction and the national development” was declared by the editorial board to conduct a comprehensive intersectoral collective mini-study on the issues of the legal support for the development of strategic partnership and traditional interstate cooperation. A comprehensive analysis of the potential areas of international cooperation in need of a developed technological legal infrastructure is presented in the prepared draft in an expanded format. These are the traditional areas of the activity of international organizations in the context of scientific, technological, and industrial integration, and interstate cooperation in the field of economic activity on foreign trade, public procurement, fiscal policy, as well as new areas in criminal and civil proceedings, arbitration, electoral justice, involving the study of foreign experience to plan strategic partnership and full-fledged mutually beneficial international technological cooperation. It is proved that different strategies of inter-country cooperation and strategic partnership within countries will lead to the creation of different legal systems. A new form of partnership is being investigated - strategic partnership arising as a result of integration processes in the world and the changes in the goals, objectives, and principles of interrelationships of subjects of international law, which is characterized by long-term, mutually beneficial relations of equal status with an emphasis on the economic component. It is argued that the growing economic intra-national inequality is a problem of systemic importance for jurisprudence. It should be studied and taken into account when developing the strategic partnership policy documents and the acts of international cooperation, which will contribute to the creation of more peaceful and prosperous coexistence, backed by an effective law of nations, which meets all types of major challenges to which it is impossible to offer competent adaptive legal responses outside of close inter-country interaction.

INTERSTATE COOPERATION IN THE SPHERE OF TECHNICAL REGULATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Статья посвящена некоторым проблемам сотрудничества в рамках ЕАЭС и БРИКС в сфере технического регулирования цифровых технологий. На основе проведенного исследования сделан вывод о ключевой роли совершенствования технического регулирования указанных союзов в целях развития современной технологической основы национальных экономик, что особо важно для государств в условиях обостряющейся конкуренции. The article is devoted to some problems of cooperation within the EAEU and BRICS in the field of technical regulation of digital technologies. On the basis of the study, it is concluded that the key role of improving the technical regulation of these unions in order to develop the modern technological basis of national economies is made, which is especially important for states in the context of intensifying competition.

Conceptualizing interstate cooperation

There seems to exist a general consensus on how to conceptualize cooperation in the field of international relations (IR). We argue that this impression is deceptive. In practice, scholars working on the causes of international cooperation have come to implicitly employ various understandings of what cooperation is. Yet, an explicit debate about the discipline's conceptual foundations never materialized, and whatever discussion occurred did so only latently and without much dialog across theoretical traditions. In this paper, we develop an updated conceptual framework by exploring the nature of these differing understandings and situating them within broader theoretical conversations about the role of cooperation in IR. Drawing on an array of studies in IR and philosophy, our framework distinguishes between three distinct types of cooperative state interactions – cooperation through tacit policy coordination (‘minimal’ cooperation), cooperation through explicit policy coordination (‘thin’ cooperation), and cooperation based on joint action (‘thick’ cooperation). The framework contributes to better theorization about cooperation in two main ways: it allows scholars across theoretical traditions to identify important sources of disagreement and previously unnoticed theoretical common ground; and the conceptual disaggregation it provides grants scholars crucial theoretical leverage by enabling type-specific causal theorization.

Systematization of the experience of legal regulation of innovation infrastructure in the CIS countries in the context of the protection and commercialization of RIA

The innovation infrastructure as an object of legal regulation has not been sufficiently studied. The article summarizes the practice of improving legislation in the field of innovation in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which are leaders in innovative development — the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Armenia, which were determined on the basis of the human development index and the global innovation index. The regulatory framework of these CIS countries is considered from the position of state regulation of innovation and technological policy, the creation of technoparks, business incubators, venture organizations, technology transfer centers. The study revealed that the national innovation systems of the CIS countries have significant features. In the conclusions, it is noted that the legislative framework for the protection of the results of innovation activity is insufficiently systematized, fragmentary, and heterogeneously formed. On this aspect, broader interstate cooperation within the CIS is needed.