The Role Of Shanghai Cooperation Organization As A Security Community

Description

The main aim of publishing this book is to spread the knowledge attained by the undersigned amongst the interested persons. There are manifold purposes for writing this book on the subject. It caters to the needs of the scholars of regional organization and area studies and for beginners to understand the intricacies of the subject. It is observed that the very name of the SCO evokes doubts in the minds of the students. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centers of the multipolar world, covering an enormous landmass including China, India, Russia, and its southern Eurasian neighbors. 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, labor, migration, and environmental cooperation, as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defense. The authors, analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO, note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and the declarative and decorative nature of the SCO.