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Krasantcov E. S. SCO IN THE GLOBAL ENCIRCLEMENT OF CRITICISM АGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE ACTIVE U. S. BASE POLICYIN THE «GREAT CENTRAL ASIA» . Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations, 2013, vol. 13, iss. 2, pp. 79-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2013-13-2-79-84
SCO IN THE GLOBAL ENCIRCLEMENT OF CRITICISM АGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE ACTIVE U. S. BASE POLICYIN THE «GREAT CENTRAL ASIA»
SCO actions in Central Asia (CA) are often become criticized by NATO and its loyal states. The key reasons for that are named to be the military trainings run by SCO and its close ties with Iran as it is a non-official member there or one of the SCO’s observers. The article offers various opinions both amiable and critical with regard to SCO expressed by the world community. The next part of the article describes the US policy for basing its troops in the region and a general situation regarding Pentagon’s military bases located in the CA and Pakistan. The main conclusion for the occurred affairs became the indigestible SCO policy in the view of NATO and its unwillingness to accept a new rivalry even in the regional dimension.
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