The integration deepening strategy: the view from Belarus

Abstract

The development of the strategy of the Shanghai cooperation organization (SCO) sets a particular development philosophy within a specific time frame forming a kind of a future model for the organization and for the states involved in its work. To date the organization has completed, according to its Secretary General, the stage of formation. A new stage started in the history of the organization will be characterized by qualitatively different challenges, opportunities and modalities of operation. In this article the authors analyze a perspective situation in which the organization has to operate, and try to simulate the main directions of its development in the next decade.