Interview with Andrey Kortunov
Having been created more than a generation ago by the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) now faces one of the greatest tests of its relevancy and effectiveness since it was created as it searches for a resolution to the Ukrainian crisis. All this as the OSCE prepares to commemorate its 40
th
anniversary in 2015.
To discuss the challenges ...
On March 11, 2015, RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich was in Stockholm to take part in a seminar “
The OSCE’s Role in Consolidating European Security
” held within the
Helsinki+40
project by the
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (
UI
). The event was attended by Cochairman ...
RIAC’s paper “Strengthening the OSCE: Building a Common Space for Economic and Humanitarian Cooperation, an Indivisible Security Community from the Atlantic to the Pacific” has been included in the recommended reading list in the Munich Security Report 2015 “Collapsing Order,...
... took part in a meeting of
Helsinki +40
Advisory Board at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute held to discuss the outcomes of international seminars in
Moscow
last September 25 (“Helsinki +40 Process: Prospects for Strengthening the OSCE”) and in
Washington
on November 18, 2014 (“Helsinki+40: Significance for Transatlantic Relations”).
The SIPRI event participants have prepared the agenda for the next March 2015 seminar in Stockholm, and discussed future cooperation ...
On November 18, 2014 in Washington, DC, the German Marshall Fund of the United States held seminar “
Helsinki+40: the Significance for Transatlantic Relations
”, the second one in the series initiated by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly within
project “Helsinki+40.”
Last September, a similar event
took place in Moscow
. The Washington session was attended by GMF President Karen Donfreid, OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva, Cochairman of “Helsinki+40” ...
RIAC Report #16
The dramatic developments in Ukraine in 2014 have once again demonstrated the relevance of the cooperative crisis management tools and mechanisms of the OSCE.
Issues of strengthening and reforming the OSCE are once again part of the European agenda.
The 40th anniversary of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe represents an important milestone in the development of the ...
... international seminar of the Atlantic Council of the United States on revaluation of common interests in the context of European security covering such issues as the current status and future of European and Euro-Atlantic security institutions, i.e. OSCE, European Union, Council of Europe, etc. through the prism of Ukraine crisis and overall deterioration of the Russia-West relationship.
Among other things, Dr. Ivanov and Dr. Kortunov presented RIAC's policy paper on the future of the OSCE prepared ...
As part of seminar "Helsinki +40 Process: Prospects for Strengthening the OSCE" organized jointly by the Russian International Affairs Council and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE PA members visited MGIMO-University to meet Russian undergraduates and postgraduates.
The gathering was addressed by Joao SOARES, Chairman ...
On September 25, 2014, Russian International Affairs Council and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly held the international seminar "Helsinki +40 Process: Prospects for Strengthening the OSCE" with participation of the OSCE PA representatives, top European politicians and civil society leaders, Russian parliamentarians ...
... crisis remains one of the most vexed issues on the international agenda. The interested parties are making efforts to resolve it, and important steps towards peace have already been taken. So far, however, this is not enough to halt the bloodshed. The OSCE is actively involved in monitoring events in Ukraine, but many people believe the parties must be more active. How effective is the OSCE in this situation? Vladimir Baranovsky, deputy director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations ...
