Eurasian Regionalism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The SCO’s Model for Regional Cooperation: An Institutional Framework within the Regional Context of Central Asia

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4. The Member States’ Perceptions: Security, Regional Cooperation and the SCO

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5. Common Agenda, Managing Disagreements and Changing Perceptions about Multilateralism

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6. The SCO’s Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices — Regional Security Governance in Eurasia?

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7. External Policy: Common Narrative, Other Eurasian Organisations and Expansion of Membership

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars. This study examines the evolution of the SCO as a regional security provider and a framework for cooperation, drawing on fieldwork interviews with officials and experts from its member-states.

• Governance
• government
• Institution
• Policy
• russian and post-soviet politics

• Center for Security Studies, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

  Stephen Aris

STEPHEN ARIS is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an editor of Russian Analytical Digest. His research interests include security in the post-Soviet space and East Asia, norms and narratives beyond the West, and theories of regionalism and security. His work has been published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

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