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- Title
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation.
- Authors
Grajewski, Nicole Bayat
- Abstract
At the 2021 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, the Russian‐ and Chinese‐led bloc announced the approval of Iran's longstanding bid for membership. Iran has viewed its involvement in the organization as a means of bolstering external legitimacy, fostering security‐oriented regionalism, and promoting the transition toward the so‐called multipolar world order. The SCO has served as a regime‐preservation network by providing Iran with a source of solidarity against external pressure. Tehran's commitment to the normative order, sustained by the SCO's discourse of noninterference, sovereignty, and countering the "three evils"—terrorism, extremism, and separatism—has galvanized the organization's role as a common front against the imposition of liberal norms and challenges to regime security.
- Subjects
IRAN; SHANGHAI Cooperation Organisation; SUMMIT meetings; MEMBERSHIP in associations, institutions, etc.; REGIONALISM; SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Middle East Policy, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 2, p38
- ISSN
1061-1924
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mepo.12684