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100	1		_aROTHACHER Albrecht
245			_aAllying with an evil axis?: _bthe ambivalent role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Central Asia / _cAlbrecht Rothacher
260			_c2008
520			_aProvides a short account of the history of the SCO and its predecessor the Shanghai Five. Identifies the SCO as essentially "a mutual support agreement against the domestic enemies of the regimes involved" with a veneer of respectability provided by co-chairs Russia and China. Although this account is highly critical of the SCO and sees its demise as a near certainty, it suggests there may be some benefit in limited engagement by the west with the SCO in relation to Afghanistan where the problems are closer to SCO than to NATO.
650			_aSHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION
650			_aAFGHANISTAN
773			_aRUSI Journal : _gVol 153 No 1, February 2008, pp.68-73
598			_aNATO, AFGHAN, RUSSIA, CHINA
945			_i23816-1001 _rN _sY
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