Charting a new Silk Road? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russian foreign policy

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dc.contributor.authorGonzalez, Benjamin F.
dc.contributor.supervisorDesai, Radhika
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-27T21:58:06Z
dc.date.available2007-08-27T21:58:06Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-08-27T21:58:06Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) first came into being as a result of border negotiations between Russia and China but evolved shortly thereafter into more than this. A regional organization comprised of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and China the SCO’s mandate now encompasses trade and security. Most secondary literature on this organization tends to detail the interests of its constituent members, while overlooking the historical relationships underlying the SCO’s growth and evolution. This thesis argues that Russia’s long-standing relationships with the states of Central Asia created the conditions making the SCO a necessary tool of Russian foreign policy, while Moscow’s relations with China and the US have driven the development of the group. It concludes that the SCO has become the most viable of Central Asia’s regional organizations because it has effectively resolved contradictions and conflicts in Russia’s relationships with the other SCO members.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/204
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectShanghai Cooperation Organizationen_US
dc.subjectRussian foreign policyen_US
dc.subjectCentral Asiaen_US
dc.subjectRegionalismen_US
dc.subjectUzbekistanen_US
dc.subjectKazakhstanen_US
dc.subjectKyrgyzstanen_US
dc.subjectTajikistanen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Science::International relationsen_US
dc.titleCharting a new Silk Road? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russian foreign policyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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