«Сложные государства»: юридическая конструкция Б.Н. Чичерина и современная политическая практика

Российская юстиция. 2021. № 12. С. 7–12.

Medushevsky A. N.

Globalization reveals two opposite trends in
international constitutional law, towards both integration
and fragmentation, producing different views on future
normative architecture of regional legal unions and
their governance. The problematique of these debates
includes correlation between international law and
national constitutional law, theoretical grounds of postnational
constitutionalism and changing interpretation
of sovereignty. The practical importance of these
debates is demonstrated by competing visions of
the European Union’s future construction based on
different interpretations of communitarian method
which implies so-called shared sovereignty. Although
this concept breaks up with classic definition of that
principle, formed in the period of building of nation
states, it has some historical prerequisites. From
this point of view, the concept of «complex states»,
introduced by B. Chicherin, may be interpreted as the
original framework for understanding of international
state unions in transition, capable of combining different
elements of sovereignty in various types, forms and
levels of integration. At the core of the analysis lies
the very process of unification, decomposition, and
reunification of states’ unions regarding such issues
as legal and sociological parameters, dynamics
of intermediate forms, delegated prerogatives and
general unification impetus of the union’s supreme
power.

Keywords: Б.Н. Чичерин, «сложное государство», пред- и постнациональный конституционализм, международные союзы государств, разделенный суверенитет

Publication based on the results of: Глобальный конституционализм: проекты, стратегии продвижения, политический вклад (2020)