The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: China's Grand Strategy in Central Asia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is one of the successful outcomes of China's foreign policy since the end of the Cold war. The expansion of multilateral ties all over the world by dint of pursuing institutional strategies as SCO, identify China as a more constructive power. SCO became a new model of cooperation that was formed on remains of collapsed Soviet system, and predetermined China's geopolitical role in the region. As the fast developing effective regional mechanism, SCO today has more of external impact on the international system and forms a new type of interaction for promoting China's grand strategy of 'peaceful rise'.

• Mara Gubaidullina
• Aigerim Yelibayeva

• Central Asia
• China's grand strategy
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

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