Security Regionalism
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Unlike the EAEU and the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization includes two key actors—Russia and China. The chapter reviews the specifics of the organization and the functioning of the SCO, and also develops an argument about how SCO could contribute to the longevity of autocratic rulers. It tests whether autocracies which belong to the SCO are characterized by longer tenure of the rulers than those which do not belong to the SCO. Through the trust building between nations, the SCO enables more intensive economic cooperation of authoritarian regimes. Apart from economic support through the SCO, the chapter investigates another potential explanation of autocracy consolidation of the region related to the SCO’s role.
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2021 ◽
Vol 25
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pp. 159-174
2021 ◽
Vol 02
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pp. 201-208
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