Flexibility by design: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the future of Eurasian cooperation

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should be given more attention as China and Russia increasingly turn their attention to Central Asia. This new comprehensive CSS study explores the SCO’s distinctive features in terms of its set-up and agenda, how China’s priorities and Sino-Russian relations have played a key role in shaping cooperation in the organization, SCO enlargement and why it has been so divisive and how Europe and Switzerland could engage with the organization.