Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna declared his country’s desire for “a larger and deeper role” in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). That pronouncement at the forum’s recently concluded tenth summit makes supreme sense for India, since as a geopolitical and geo-economic reality that bridges the former Soviet space, East Asia and South Asia, the SCO is hastening the global shift towards multipolarity.
India shares with the SCO the limited goal of a more “democratic international system”, wherein power is widely diffused among multiple centers even as many of the organization’s member states – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – and applicants have undemocratic regimes.
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