Council of Security and Economic Cooperation

The Council of Security and Economic Cooperation (French: Conseil de Sécurité et de Coopération Économique; Spanish: Consejo de Seguridad y Cooperación Económica; Portuguese: Conselho de Segurança e Cooperação Económica), is an intergovernmental military and economic alliance between 13 member states – 7 African, 2 North American, one South American, one Middle Eastern, one South Asian, and one Southeast Asian. It was established as a balance of power or counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is currently dominated by the United Magisterian Socialist People's Republics.