Three Decades of Post-Soviet Institution-Building: Slow Start, Expansion, Stagnation
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As this year draws to a close, Russia and most of the former Soviet states will mark three decades since the USSR was dissolved and a…
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Afghanistan, Russia, and the CSTO
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Will Russia promote the unproved Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the shadow of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? On July 7, 2021, Tajikistan requested that its…
Cooley: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not a problem-solving forum; China and Russia are not on the same page
(Newsweek) Russia, China and a handful of other regional powers will deploy around 3,000 troops and 500 weapons systems for joint counterterror exercises that will take place in Russia’s Ural Mountains…
Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus
(PONARS Policy Memo) The topic of collective responses to terrorism, extremism, and transnational organized crime has long dominated discussions within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).…
Cooley: Russia has been uncomfortable with institutionalising China’s growing regional economic dominance
(Newsweek) This month, as Newsweek goes to print, an international organisation all but unknown in the West is set to announce that its membership will soon include countries representing half…
The Stagnation of the SCO: Competing Agendas and Divergent Interests in Central Asia
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), comprising China, Russia, and four of the five Central Asian states (excluding Turkmenistan), continues to be a source of fascination and speculation. Western commentators remain…
Russia’s Counterrevolutionary Offensive in Central Asia
Counterterrorism has never been a convincing Russian strategy for Central Asia. At the start of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, attempts to impress upon the leaders of the five Central Asian states that only…
The Not-So-Great Game in Central Asia
The recent request of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to the United States to set deadlines for the temporary use of its bases in Central Asia, and Uzbekistan’s subsequent demand…
Manas Matters: The Changing Politics of the U.S. Military Base in Kyrgyzstan
From July 2005 to July 2006 the status of the Manas (Ganci) U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan became a central issue in U.S.-Kyrgyz relations and within Kyrgyz domestic politics. During…
Enlarging the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Is Iran a Viable Member?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established on June 15, 2001, by a declaration adopted by six states: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The SCO evolved from mechanisms…