Factors of Stability in Greater Eurasia

... point of view of the Russian economy, with which they are best connected logistically. International organisations in Greater Eurasia arose amid fundamentally different conditions than in Europe, and the closest analogue can only be the cooperation of the Southeast Asian countries within ASEAN. A distinctive feature of the European institutions for security and cooperation is their forceful nature. The Organisation ... ... formalise the balance of power between the major powers, first as of 1975 and then after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. The SCO, in turn, was created without taking into account the balance of forces among the participants. Moreover, they were not in ...