The Nature of Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and Their Significance as Sources of Law

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of modern transnational companies (TNCs) in the formation of the socio-economic and geopolitical reality of the information society. The ability of TNCs to quickly convert significant material, financial, legal, and organizational resources into political influence in order to obtain excess profits actualizes the need to study the degree of their influence on traditional institutions of state power. On the one hand, we are talking about the analysis of the TNC phenomenon in the categorical plane of power, legitimacy and sovereignty, taking into account the systemic interaction of corporations with other actors and society as a whole. On the other hand, despite all the economic and social prospects for development that open up for the state, thanks to the entry of TNCs into the national economic and legal space, the question arises about the danger they can pose to the state sovereignty of the host countries. Thus, determining the degree of the threat of TNCs to the state sovereignty of developing countries, as well as the conditions for preserving state legal capacity under the influence of TNCs on the political and socio-economic situation in the country, is an urgent direction of research of an interdisciplinary nature, in which it will be appropriate to combine the methodological tools of theory and history state and law, economics, political science, etc. Given the identified research priorities, the purpose of the article is to analyze the consequences of the activities of TNCs for the national sovereignty of developing countries, as well as to find and justify the necessary conditions for its preservation.