| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation |
| Author: |
ArisStephen, 1936- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 215 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Critical studies of the Asia Pacific series |
| Subject: |
International agencies - Asia, Central. - |
| Subject: |
National security - Asia, Central. - |
| Subject: |
Regionalism - Asia, Central. - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Affairs & Administration. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307643An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
The emergence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from both governments and scholars. Based on fieldwork interviews with officials and experts from its memberstates, this study examines the evolution of the SCO as a regional security provider and a framework for cooperation. In doing so, it challenges current predominant interpretations of the SCO, which portray it as an anti-Western alliance. Instead, Aris suggests that the SCO is focused on addressing intra-regional transnational security challenges perceived as a threat to regime security by its member-states' leaderships. It is also argued that the SCO's loose and non-binding framework for cooperation is proving relatively successful and appropriate for its regional context. On this basis, the book contributes to the development of theory on regionalism beyond the West, emphasising the importance of investigating regional organisations within their regional context. |
| ISBN: |
9780230307643electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230307647electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction The SCO's Model for Regional Cooperation: an Institutional Framework within the Regional Context of Central Asia The Member-States' Perceptions on Security, Regional Cooperation and the SCO Common Agenda, Disagreements and Changing Perceptions on Multilateralism Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices Regional Security Governance in Eurasia? External Policy: Common Narrative, Other Eurasian Organisations and Expansion of Membership Conclusion Appendix 1: Key Developments in Evolution of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Bibliography. |