By Stephen Aris
The Shanghai Cooperation service provider (SCO) is attracting major consciousness from governments and students. This learn examines the evolution of the SCO as a nearby safety supplier and a framework for cooperation, drawing on fieldwork interviews with officers and specialists from its member-states.
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2007, personal interview, 10 May). Chinese analyst Chen Xulong (2007, personal interview, 20 June) considers that the SCO is an evolutionary mechanism, because The SCO’s Model for Regional Cooperation 43 when the initial border demarcation negotiations were conducted within the Shanghai mechanism in the mid-1990s, there was no grand design to create a full regional organisation, and instead the SCO emerged out of the perceived success of the Shanghai process up to that point. In fact the SCO has progressed through a number of evolutionary phases.
Although sharing key economic interests (energy resources of the Caspian and Central Asia, development of transportation and communication infrastructure and more active trade in specific sectors), the consensus among most regional analysts is that ‘in the mid-term there is no prospect for efficient economic cooperation among the SCO members since the countries differ greatly as far as their domestic economic and political situations are concerned’ (Tolipov 2004b). There are different levels of capacity among the member states’ economies, from the economic powerhouse of China to the weaker economies of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The SCO and its members have characterised terrorism, extremism and separatism as the ‘three evil’ of the region. 18 This represents a commitment to target security threats that are non-traditional in nature, functioning The SCO’s Model for Regional Cooperation 29 below the state level and across state boundaries, and which require a fundamentally different approach from that of state-to-state security. All the member states’ leaderships consider that they face similar non-traditional security challenges.
