STEPHEN ARIS is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an editor of Russian Analytical Digest. His research interests include security in the post-Soviet space and East Asia, norms and narratives beyond the West, and theories of regionalism and security. His work has been published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

• Introduction The SCO's Model for Regional Cooperation: an Institutional Framework within the Regional Context of Central Asia The Member-States' Perceptions on Security, Regional Cooperation and the SCO Common Agenda, Disagreements and Changing Perceptions on Multilateralism Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices - Regional Security Governance in Eurasia? External Policy: Common Narrative, Other Eurasian Organisations and Expansion of Membership Conclusion Appendix 1 – Key Developments in Evolution of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Bibliography

STEPHEN ARIS is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an editor of Russian Analytical Digest. His research interests include security in the post-Soviet space and East Asia, norms and narratives beyond the West, and theories of regionalism and security. His work has been published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

• Introduction The SCO's Model for Regional Cooperation: an Institutional Framework within the Regional Context of Central Asia The Member-States' Perceptions on Security, Regional Cooperation and the SCO Common Agenda, Disagreements and Changing Perceptions on Multilateralism Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices - Regional Security Governance in Eurasia? External Policy: Common Narrative, Other Eurasian Organisations and Expansion of Membership Conclusion Appendix 1 – Key Developments in Evolution of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Bibliography

STEPHEN ARIS is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an editor of Russian Analytical Digest. His research interests include security in the post-Soviet space and East Asia, norms and narratives beyond the West, and theories of regionalism and security. His work has been published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

• Introduction The SCO's Model for Regional Cooperation: an Institutional Framework within the Regional Context of Central Asia The Member-States' Perceptions on Security, Regional Cooperation and the SCO Common Agenda, Disagreements and Changing Perceptions on Multilateralism Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices - Regional Security Governance in Eurasia? External Policy: Common Narrative, Other Eurasian Organisations and Expansion of Membership Conclusion Appendix 1 – Key Developments in Evolution of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Bibliography