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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Developing Eurasian space through regional cooperation: finding new ways -- Part I Building a basis: roots and grounds -- 2 The formation and institutional development of the SCO: historical and legal aspects -- 3 International legal background and aspects of the SCO member states intercommunication -- 4 The SCO and security cooperation -- 5 Countering extremism on the SCO's Agenda -- Part II Moving through the levels of cooperation -- 6 Convergence of Western and Asian legal values in the SCO perspective -- 7 Humanitarian cooperation in the SCO: current situation and development features -- 8 SCO and convergence of member states labour legislation: foundation, opportunities, and prospects -- 9 Possibilities and perspectives for regulating labor migration in the SCO member countries -- 10 International legal forms of interaction between the SCO and EAEU -- Part III Looking ahead: to new prospects and horizons -- 11 Economic interaction within the SCO: new horizons in the era of turbulence -- 12 Research on the legal mechanism for SCO energy cooperation -- 13 SCO transport and logistic assistance to the states of the Central Asia region -- 14 Prospects of the evolving SCO mandate: from a security focus towards an increased economic and strategic partnership with India -- 15 Environmental protection as a challenge to the SCO -- 16 Some thoughts on the efficiency and perspectives of the SCO -- Index.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a new international institute has gained a firm foothold in the political life of Central Asian countries. Several large projects are currently being implemented under the SCO's auspices that can bring far-reaching changes in the region, eventually altering the balance of forces on the Eurasian continent in favor of China. The SCO's especially promising projects include a SCO free trade area, to be created by 2020, and a regional antiterrorism structure, the first of a kind in the Central Asian region. Furthermore, the SCO has started showing ambitions of a political player whose interests extend beyond the collective national interests of its member countries and have a pronounced geopolitical character. The Organization is striving to encompass the key areas of activity in Central Asia, at the same time working to consolidate the member countries' foreign policy efforts in dealing with common tasks (one example of such cooperation is the decision to bring the SCO into the peace process in Afghanistan). As of late, the Organization has been taking practical steps to become a system-forming factor, a paradigm of regional development ensuring conditions for the advancement of the Central Asian region—its security and effective interaction between its member states. There is good reason to suggest that without the SCO, these two factors in Central Asia's development would be less organized: Both security and multipartite cooperation required the establishment of a "center of gravity" in the region, such as the SCO. Today, the SCO is also an important factor in a general restructuring of interstate cooperation mechanisms, political configuration and the security situation in Central Asia, as the groundwork for a new economy is being laid. A multilateral economic and security interaction mechanism that is evolving within the SCO has a positive impact on the development of relations between individual member countries, as well as their interaction with extra-regional players and other international organizations. These relations are being built on what is seen as collective priorities. But taking into account the real role of China and Russia, the SCO initiatives require a more thorough analysis. Alongside the changes in interaction between countries in the region, the SCO has yet another important effect on the Central Asian republics and the world as a whole. The SCO "introduces" China to Central Asia as an inalienable element of regional politics and economics, strengthening its positions, and considering the SCO's ambitions and its potential as a global organization, it also provides a major channel for China in its aspiration for the role of a new regional and global power. Today Beijing has entered an active phase of using the SCO in its own interests, attempting to change the geopolitical balance and the system of internal and external relations in the Central Asian republics that have evolved over the 15 years since the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. Kazakhstan is actively involved in the SCO project, proceeding from its own national interests; but from every indication, the continuation of the "Shanghai process" will have a not entirely favorable impact on Kazakhstan's security. The negative trends that are evolving with respect to the Republic of Kazakhstan stem from the place that the PRC is striving to take in the Central Asian region, as well as the goals that the Chinese side has set itself, and that it intends to achieve through the SCO.

The article deals with the urgent problem of the development of the countries' inter-university cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the present stage in the context of their humanitarian cooperation. The realities of the globalizing world suppose the development of interaction between people who are at great distances from each other and who have different identities. Interdependence of cultures, increasing economic cooperation and many other factors require appropriate changes in educational policy. The links between universities from different countries, their cooperation, the realization of joint educational projects mean the transition of education to a new level, from the national to the truly "global education" format. The SCO countries are allies and have established close political cooperation in most of the spheres. In the field of education, the parties also actively develop cooperation, while simultaneously implementing projects of different format. The object of scientific research of the authors is the project of the network "University of SCO", which reflects the vision of the parties on integration in the humanitarian sphere, the convergence of national education systems and the development of intercultural communication. At the present moment, the University has united 79 national universities of the SCO countries, becoming a leading phenomenon in the field of education, proving the possibility of successful practical scientific and intercultural interaction of peoples with different cultural traditions, religious beliefs, political and economic systems. At the same time, the University's activity meets certain difficulties, it is limited to just a few key areas, its expansion and the creation of a full-scale University is a major task for the development of the integration of the SCO countries in education sphere. The authors analyse the development process of the University from its creation in 2008 to the present day, identify the existing problems and provide recommendatory measures, the adoption and implementation of which are necessary for the further progress of the system.

The author contemplates about the prospects of SCO development according to the strategy formulated at the Ufa-2015 summit and its possible conjugation of this strategy with Chinese initiative of Silk Road. The stages of China global policy and the most recent shifts as compared with the political attitudes of Deng Xiaoping era are described.