... international monitoring of any prospective ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine arises.
Maria Khorolskaya:
OSCE’s Involvement in Conflict Resolution Across the Post-Soviet Space
No doubt, we should not overestimate the possible role of the OSCE in Europe’s future. If there ever was a chance to place this organization at the core of the future European security and development framework, that chance was irrevocably lost a quarter century ago. Neither the OSCE nor any other international institution will carry us back into the world that had existed prior to February 24, 2022, let alone into ...
... Paris looks too romantic and naïve today, let us get back to a less antiquated
2010 Astana Declaration
and figure out whether we can use it as a foundation for building a new Europe in 2021.
OSCE is not innovative enough
Critics also argue that the OSCE is too slow to respond to new challenges to the European security and to new opportunities for cooperation in Europe. In particular, critics say that the OSCE has not yet played a significant role in such areas as confronting international terrorism, dealing with illegal trans-border migration, managing ...
... worthy institutional competitors on many specific security issues in Europe. This means that reducing the appeal of NATO for the countries in the “shared neighbourhood” will require attempts to strip the organization of its current monopoly on the European security agenda, which can be achieved by strengthening the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), developing regional cooperation mechanisms and creating inclusive pan-European regimes regulating individual dimensions of European security.
Europe does have a positive experience of "outsourcing" its security issues. For instance, the ...
... partly, on the progress achieved in resolving the crisis in and around Ukraine, that would allow rebuilding some of the trust that has been lost among the key stakeholders in Europe and this would then allow, again, to tackle more fundamental issues of European security and that bring about a new gathering of OSCE’s heads of state and government.
What are your expectations from the upcoming Ministerial Council meeting in December?
Ivan Timofeev:
Unbalanced Europe and the New Order in the OSCE Space
I hope that we will, in the first place, get a number ...
Interview with one of the co-authors of the OSCE Report “Reducing the Risks of Conventional Deterrence in Europe”
On October 24, 2019, the Russian International Affairs Council held a breakfast lecture on the topic “
Arms Control: Will Russia and NATO Reach a Deal?
” timed to the release ...
... — , edited by Johan Engvall and Gudrun Persson, focuses more on the question as to why German Social Democrats, in the wake of the 2016 Steinmeier initiative, are focusing so much on CAC than on the issue itself. And finally, in the framework of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, a group of authors from Germany, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the US presented a concrete
proposal
for sub-regional arms control in the Baltic region — “Reducing the Risks ...
... Greminger, Secretary General of the OSCE, and the accompanying European diplomats.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: participation of independent Russian, European, and American experts in the preparation of proposals for OSCE institutional development and the future architecture of European security in general. Andrey Kortunov informed Thomas Greminger about the implemented and current RIAC projects on this topic.
... remain the only viable solution to the crisis in Ukraine. If Minsk II fails, there will be no Minsk III
The new European security system needs to be Russia-inclusive. A number of Russian participants expressed concerns about the effectiveness of the OSCE and its ability to contribute to European security
Russia and the EU should come up with a positive agenda that addresses the issues of concern to both actors
Russia and Germany in a changing world order
The participants agreed that the current deterioration of Russian-German and Russian-West ...
