mgimorusjirlRussian Journal of World Politics and Law of NationsRussian Journal of World Politics and Law of Nations2949-6322МГИМО МИД России10.24833/RJWPLN-2024-1-16-36mgimorusjirl-63Research ArticleRegional and national securityRegional and national securityInternational Legal Regulation of States’ Activities in The Greater Mediterranean RegionKovalV. N.

Vladimir N. KOVAL – Doctor of Legal Sciences, Director of Judicial Institute

33, Universitetskaya st., Sevastopol, 299053

v.n.koval@sevsu.ruVasilievS. A.

Stanislav A. VASILIEV – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law

33, Universitetskaya st., Sevastopol, 299053

mnogoslov@mail.ruGodovanikE. V.

Evgeniy V. GODOVANIK – Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Con­stitutional and Administrative Law

33, Universitetskaya st., Sevastopol, 299053

evgodovanik@mail.sevsu.ruPolischukA. V.

Aleksandr V. POLISHCHUK – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of International, Maritime and Customs Law

33, Universitetskaya st., Sevastopol, 299053

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A trend that is becoming increasingly noticeable in modern international and domestic maritime law is the regional fragmentation of legal regulation. This, in turn, objectifies and brings to the foreground the creation of complex arrays of legal norms, united by the consistency of the political and legal positions of contracting states that have national interests in the relevant water area – primarily coastal states extending their state sovereignty to certain areas of maritime space. In this context, the Greater Mediterranean region should be considered as one of the most important in world merchant shipping, and in naval support for international peace and security. From a logistical point of view, the basin optimally connects the Atlantic and Indian oceans, which requires the formation of an appropriate scientific and methodological basis for the full implementation of the fundamental principle of international cooperation in the maritime policy of the states of the region. The choice to identify the Greater Medi­ terranean as an independent object of legal regulation was justified by an examina­tion of general and special international legal treaties, the domestic legislation of the Mediterranean states, as well as political and legal documents indicating the existence of certain disputes and situations around certain zones of the Mediterranean water area, primarily in the Eastern Mediterranean region. To obtain reliable and substanti­ ated results, the following methods of scientific knowledge were used: formal-legal, logical, historical-legal, and system-structural analysis. The formal-legal method thus allowed the authors to clarify the content and meaning of international legal treaties concluded at different times and aimed at regulating public relations in the maritime sphere. The logical method made it possible to substantiate the need for comprehen­sive international cooperation among the coastal states of the Greater Mediterranean. The historical-legal method was used to create an overview of the global, Soviet and Russian practice of applying the norms of domestic and international law to issues re­lated to ensuring international law and order in the Greater Mediterranean region. The logical method allowed the authors to build the necessary connections and patterns of development in international legal regulation in the Greater Mediterranean region in the general context of ongoing universal and regional political and legal processes and transformations. The method of system-structural analysis was used to create a holistic picture of law-making and law enforcement in the Mediterranean states aimed at the formation of unified principles and norms for the exercise of the sovereign rights of coastal states. International maritime merchant shipping is an extremely complex area of public relations involving a large number of entities with different legal status which, accordingly, are related to each other in a very different way. This work is devoted to the study of the main trends in the development of the Greater Mediterranean region in terms of formulating key international legal guidelines and rules of conduct for its constituent states. The object of the study is the legal relations carried out in the mari­time spaces of the Greater Mediterranean as one of the key regions, which, along with its economic and political significance, is an integral zone for the implementation of the national interests of the Russian Federation, extending to the entire World Ocean.

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