Rethinking the Regime Security and Democratic Development through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Journal: Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi
Year: 2025

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a regional international organization that emerged in Eurasia in the post-Cold War period and has different priorities, unlike Western liberal organizations. In this respect, SCO is an unconventional international integration against non-traditional threats. SCO's institutional structure has been functionalized to serve security, understood as regime security against the threats of three evils: terrorism, extremism, and separatism. This study argues