IGS 10a Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Free-Trade Area, Arab Spring, Free Trade
13 Sep 2016
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Sco emerged out of disintegration of the former soviet union and china"s concerns about security along border w/ russia, kazakhstan, tajikistan, and kyrgyzstan. Treaties 1996-1998 address triple threats of extremism, separatism, and terrorism aka. Possible effort to counter nato expansion in europe but russia and china see as multilateral institution for security, not military alliance. Expanded into formal, complex organization by 2001 w/ more members, dialogue partners, and observer states. Sco marks shift in chinese foreign policy bilateralism multilateralism. Sco driven equally by russia and china. China interested in economic and security, particularly energy and new silk. No authority to enforce decisions and recommendations. Large focus on anti-terrorism and islamic extremism. Stress sanctity of national sovereignty and right of members to pursue security as they see fit. Chinese and central asian concern for territorial integrity and nonintervention neutrality. Concern about ethnic separatism, terrorism, illicit arms and drug trafficking, illegal migration and other transnational crimes.
