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Article: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Iran: a power-full union.(ANDREW WELLINGTON CORDIER ESSAY)
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- Journal of International Affairs
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- March 22, 2007
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself forgoing upright.
--Matthew Arnold
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has emerged as a globally influential political, economic and security association. This international organization, embodied by six permanent members--the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan--has garnered little attention from its western counterparts since its inception in June 2001 (see Figure 1).
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