Global Governance in Greater Eurasia: Transportation and Environmental Aspects of Legal Regulation

The study examines the legal aspects of global governance within the Greater Eurasian Partnership, understood as an emerging model of economic development based on coordinated and consistent policies pursued by the states of the region in key sectors of the economy, including the application of harmonized or unified legal rules. The paper addresses the legal nature of global governance in transportation and environmental protection; strategic planning for the development of the Russian Federation's transportation system; the hierarchy of strategic-planning documents in this field; issues concerning their internal coherence; and prospective directions for improving the legal regulation of transportation development while ensuring environmental security. Particular attention is devoted to the current the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation through 2030 with a forecast through 2035, regarded as a key strategic-planning instrument. The study demonstrates that strategic planning for the development of the transportation system is an important component of governance aimed at preserving the integrity and connectivity of the economic space of the Russian Federation and its regions, as well as of the Greater Eurasia. The need for a revised version of the Transport Strategy is preconditioned by new threats and challenges, the need to clarify the objectives and operating conditions of the national transportation system in light of current socioeconomic and sociopolitical development scenarios in Russia, and the objective necessity of ensuring the environmental security of transportation infrastructure.