INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES

Abstract

The research objective of the study is to identify the roots and stages of international cooperation of political parties, to locate them in the system of modern international legal relations, to reveal the problems in the sphere under study and suggest the ways for their solution. The research methods include general scientific methods (dialectic, analysis and synthesis, modeling, etc.) and also historical, comparative and legal, formal and legal methods. The procedure of the research is based on the analysis of the legislation of the European Union and the CIS states on international cooperation of political parties and practices of its enforcement. The retrospective analysis of the international cooperation of parties is provided as well as the analysis of law-enforcement practice of the Russian parties in the sphere of international cooperation. Based on the research the author distinguishes the stages of international cooperation of political parties, makes some suggestions concerning parties’ participation in Eurasian Economic Union formation. In conclusion the article formulates some theoretical and practical ideas that can serve for further development of the institute of political parties. The article is addressed to the experts in the field of party construction, international and integration law.