Rogue NATO: The new face of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

This week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit makes tangible the existence of an alternative international community. Featuring leaders from Russia, China, and India it is the organisation’s first face-to-face meeting since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is a clear goal at the core of the discussions: power politics and the race to multipolarism as an alternative to Western liberalism. 

In this week’s episode, Jeremy Shapiro joins an all-star ECFR panel of experts to discuss the summit’s geopolitical implications. How is SCO “dialogue partner” Turkey using the Ukraine war to get the best of both worlds? How much will Iran’s imminent membership advance its security? And finally, what would be the implications for Beijing if Putin were to lose power, and how can China support the Kremlin?  

This podcast was recorded on 16 September 2022. 

Further reading

Rogue NATO: The new face of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, by Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Marie Dumoulin, Ellie Geranmayeh & Janka Oertel

Bookshelf 

• “Jamais Frères? Ukraine Et Russie: Une Tragédie Postsoviétique” by Anna Coulin Lebdevev 
• “The Rest Is Politics” podcast by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. 
• “Die beste aller möglichen Welten” by Michael Kempe 
•  “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson 
• “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin” by Ursula K. Le Guin