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.

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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 ZHUMABEK BUSURMANOV

7 Humanitarian cooperation in the SCO: current situation and development features

OLGA BOGATYREVA AND AIDA OROZOBEKOVA

8 SCO and convergence of member states 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 interaction 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 states of the Central Asia region

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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