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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.

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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

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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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