DYNAMICS OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION 1 In the chapter " Union Management Dilemmas "of his book" Choice. World domination or global leadership " Z. Brzezinski, talking about the institutionalization of Asian regional cooperation, does not mention the SCO (pp. 117-174). Moreover, he emphasizes that the stability of the East Asian region "may be threatened by the growing power of a number of Asian states." In his opinion, there are no constraining "cooperative" structures responsible for regional security. This approach and other modern challenges pose special challenges for the SCO member States. Why Z. Brzezinski ignores such a "cooperative" security structure as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? Describing the region, he notes the following: "The burning mutual resentment of the nearest neighbors, combined with acute national feelings, look especially ominous against the background of the strategic vulnerability of the respective countries. Modern Asian powers operate in a rapidly changing world and a largely unstructured regional context, which lacks multilateral security cooperation mechanisms similar to those that exist in today's Europe and even in Latin America" [Brzezinski, 2006, p.145]. In our opinion, the answer lies in the following approach of this author :" If you draw a straight line from the Caspian Sea to Sakhalin, the Asian territory of Eurasia will be divided into two parts: to the north-extremely sparsely populated Siberia and the Russian Far East, where 30 - 35 million people live, and directly to the south - an extremely densely populated zone, where approximately 3 billion Chinese, Indians, and Muslims are concentrated" [Brzezinski, 2006, p.171]. It is obvious that the" Brzezinski Line " passes through the territory of the SCO countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia. However, these states are "discarded" by Brzezinski when structuring ... Читать далее