The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Coordinated Cyber Statecraft and Norm-Building in a Fragmented World
摘要
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has emerged as an important framework for normative building in cyberspace. Far from being a passive organisation, the SCO actively advances a sovereignty-centric approach that challenges the liberal, multistakeholder model of governance. This chapter examines how the SCO reshapes global approaches to cyberspace by projecting and institutionalising its principles of sovereignty, non-interference, and information control. It argues that the SCO practises a coordinated form of cyber statecraft which involves discursive alignment, achieved through the production of strategic narratives and the securitisation of information space; strategic coordination, through the creation of SCO institutions and harmonised cyber policies; and normative projection, through the diffusion of principles such as information sovereignty and multipolar governance in global forums. The result is the gradual norm-building in the Eurasian digital order grounded in sovereignty, regime stability, and state control—a deliberate alternative to the liberal, open-internet paradigm.