The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world, covering an enormous landmass including China, India, Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours.
With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states, the SCO’s activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20, BRICS, NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume, representing a range of the states within the SCO, evaluate the possibilities for the Organization, and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc’s prospects for economic, humanitarian, legal, trade, labour, migration, and environmental cooperation, as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors, analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO, note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO.
A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation, and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships.
Table of Contents
1. Developing Eurasian Space through Regional Cooperation: finding new ways Sergey Marochkin and Yury Bezborodov Part I Building a Basis: Roots and Grounds 2. The Formation and Institutional Development of the SCO: Historical and Legal Aspects Olga Porshneva, Mirzokhid Rakhimov and Sergey Razinkov 3. International Legal Background and Aspects of the SCO Member States Intercommunication Marat Sarsembayev and Yury Bezborodov 4. The SCO and Security Cooperation Ekaterina Mikhaylenko, Aigerim Ospanova and Maria Lagutina 5. Countering Extremism on the SCO's Agenda Aslan Abashidze and Ksenia Lyabakh Part II Moving Through the Levels of Cooperation 6. Convergence of Western and Asian Legal Values in the SCO Perspective Oleg Vinnichenko. Elena Gladun and Jumabek Busurmanov 7. Humanitarian Cooperation in the SCO: Current Situation and Development Features Olga Bogatyreva and Aida Orozobekova 8. SCO and Convergence of Member State Labour Legislation: Foundation, Opportunities, and Prospects Larisa Zaitseva and Kubanychbek Ramankulov 9. Possibilities and Perspectives for Regulating Labor Migration in the SCO Member Countries Tatyana Luzina and Amangeldy Khamzin 10. International Legal Forms of Interaction between the SCO and EAEU Zhanat Kulzhabayeva and Assem Oinarova Part III Looking Ahead: To New Prospects and Horizons 11. Economic Interactions within the SCO: New Horizons in the Era of Turbulence Olga Arkhipova and Andrey Chukreyev 12. Research on the Legal Mechanism for SCO Energy Cooperation Meng Qihong and Gong Nan 13. SCO Transport and Logistic Assistance to the CAR States Zhanna Iskakova and Amanulla Mukhamedjanov 14. Prospects of the Evolving SCO Mandate: from a Security Focus towards an Increased Economic and Strategic Partnership with India Kartikeya Dwivedi and Amika Bawa 15. Environmental protection as a challenge to the SCO Qin Tianbao and Alexander Solntsev 16. Some thoughts on the efficiency and perspectives of the SCO Sergey Marochkin and Yury Bezborodov
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Biography
Sergey Marochkin, Professor, JSD (Doctor of Juridical Sciences in legal theory and in public international law); Head, Centre for International and Comparative Legal Studies, University of Tyumen; Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation; and Member, European Society of International Law. Russia.
Yury Bezborodov, Professor, JSD (Doctor of Juridical Sciences), Ural State Law University and Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.https://www.routledge.com/The-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Exploring-New-Horizons/Marochkin-Bezborodov/p/book/9780367772802#
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