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Saturday, January 22, 2011

US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and Opportunities from SWJ Blog by SWJ Editors

US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and Opportunities

US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and Opportunities
by Jeffrey Reeves
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) stands alone as an organization positioned to address the aforementioned challenges. It is indigenous in conception and construction and contains both China and Russia as member states. As opposed to NATO, the UN, or the EU, the SCO does possess the necessary cultural understanding to implement a successful regional solution to the United States’ Central Asia challenges. The United States would benefit from closer cooperation with the SCO in its struggle to bring security to Afghanistan, to maintain its political and economic influence in Central Asia, and to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Dr. Jeffrey Reeves is currently Director for Culture and Conflict Studies and Chinese Studies Center at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, DC.

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