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Security Cooperation Among SCO Members

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The security cooperation between the SCO member states became quickly focused on so-called non-traditional security threats, at least officially. By definition, non-traditional security threats are threats posed by non-state actors, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, piracy, illegal immigration, and other criminal acts. In effect, these non-traditional threats have to be addressed differently than traditional threats, which are traditional military forces of an adversary state actor.

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    https://www.forces.net/news/biggest-military-exercise-cold-war-begins-russia

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    https://www.forces.net/news/exercise-tsentr-2019-starts-russia

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    In constant US$ of 2017. Source: sipri.org

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    All data: SIPRI, available at: https://www.sipri.org/databases/ (accessed 2020/01/30).

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    See: https://chinapower.csis.org/china-military-diplomacy/ (accessed 2020/01/30).

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Pradt, T. (2020). Security Cooperation Among SCO Members. In: The Prequel to China's New Silk Road. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4708-9_7

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