Book review: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Exploration of new horizons / ed. by Marochkin S., Bezborodov Yu. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2022. - 262 p.

is revealed through the analysis of the development of the Eurasian space through regional cooperation, which can be carried out by searching for new ways. The authors scrupulously investigate the roots and foundations of the SCO. The analytical study of the formation and institutional development of the SCO, the international legal framework and aspects of interaction between the SCO member states contributes to the disclosure of the contents of the book. The book pays considerable attention to the issues of cooperation in the field of security of the SCO. The SCO member states consider the settlement of border conflicts and countering extremism to be important tasks of their organization, which is clearly reflected in the pages of the peer-reviewed monograph. One of the interesting facets of the study is the desire to bring together Western and Asian legal values in the perspective of the SCO activities. The authors of the monograph offer rational ideas for the rapproche-DOI ment of the positions of China and India in order to establish closer business and friend-ly relations between them. The SCO is a unique international organization in its own way, which, as it further develops and improves, could contribute to deepening trade and economic cooperation between countries in the Asian and Eurasian space, could more professionally resist terrorism in this space. for economic, humanitarian, legal, trade, labour, migration, and envi-ronmental cooperation, as well as it’s 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 efciency 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.