SCO

Seizing the Multipolar Moment

16.07.2024

Over the years, the global political and economic system has undergone seismic transformations. International political order went from a bipolar configuration between 1945 and 1989 to a unipolar alignment between 1989 and 2008, before entering what we today call intricate multipolarity. This emerging multipolar era results from combining three dynamics. First, a broader distribution of wealth in the world; second, states’ inclination to assert themselves strategically and ideologically; and third, an increasingly transactional international system based on bilateral deals rather than global rules.

Multipolar world

BRICS

SCO

UAE

Vladimir Putin’s Article for People’s Daily Newspaper, Russia and China: A Future-Bound Partnership

20.03.2023

Vladimir Putin

I am glad to seize this opportunity to address the friendly Chinese people in one of the largest and most authoritative world media in advance of the state visit of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping to Russia. This landmark event reaffirms the special nature of the Russia-China partnership, which has always been built on mutual trust, respect for each other's sovereignty and interests.

multipolar world order

BRICS

SCO

Eurasian Economic Union

One Belt One Road Initiative

SCO, a working framework for implementing neighbourhood policies

05.10.2022

Leonid Savin

The planned SCO summit in Samarkand in mid-September 2022 demonstrated the ongoing process of strengthening the multipolar world and the increased interest of other countries in the organisation. The latest steps with the admission of the Islamic Republic of Iran into the organisation considerably expand the geographical scope and demonstrate the inclusiveness of the organisation. And bids from countries such as Argentina demonstrate the potential for global engagement beyond Eurasia.

The Significance Of The SCO’s Samarkand Summit

14.09.2022

Andrew Korybko

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will hold its next summit in the ancient Uzbek city of Samarkand from 15-16 September, which will see the personal attendance of all the group’s leaders. This includes Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose three countries form the Russia-India-China (RIC) framework that’s regarded as a complementary multipolar platform within the emerging world order.

Terror from Balochistan: a menacing tool to disrupt Sino-Pakistani economics

06.05.2022

Pepe Escobar

A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan. Pakistan is a critical BRI hub in Beijing's vast Eurasian connectivity project, and it looks like CPEC is the ultimate target of this disruption.

Afghanistan

Balochistan

Balochistan Liberation Army

SCO-CFM meeting in Moscow 2020

22.09.2020

Asad Ali

On 9-10 September 2020, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Minister’s (CFM) annual meeting was held in Russian capital Moscow to discuss various strategic and other important issues.

Covid-19 and Geopolitics

28.04.2020

Syed Usama Shirazi

Kurt M. Campbell, an American diplomat, and political analyst declared Coronavirus pandemic a “Suez moment” for the United State as the Suez Canal fiasco in 1956 was proved the last nail in the coffin of the Briton’s global leadership.

From Non-Alignment to Indo-Pacific, India Falls Into US Lap

22.02.2020

Waqar K. Kauravi

Adeela Naureen

Umar Waqar

As Modi eagerly awaits Trump’s visit to India, there is a tectonic shift taking place in Eurasia, the Indo Pacific alliance is coming of age.

19th SCO Summit held in Bishkek under tense geopolitics of the region

19.06.2019

Zamir Ahmed Awan

At a very critical moments, under the thick shadows of geopolitical issues, the 19th SCO summit held in Bishkek, Capital of Kirgizstan, on 13-14 June 2019.