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 ...
... 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 jointly with the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.A. and SIPRI, Sweden.
Dr. Ivanov also met Vice Chair-Designate of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Ellen Tauscher to discuss cooperation of the two think tanks in 2015 and in the next years.
... Ambassador-at-Large
Anvar Azimov
and others.
The speakers agreed that the OSCE is one of the few organizations effective in crises and should remain an actor within practical politics. The "Helsinki+40" project is a platform for discussing international security and scenarios for building a new security architecture.
The seminar was part of the
OSCE PA project
timed to the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act and aimed at generating guidelines for the organization's future activities in strengthening security and cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic space on the basis of its past experience....
Interview with Andrei Zagorski
In the run-up to the international seminar “Helsinki +40: Prospects for strengthening the OSCE”, which will be held by the Russian International Affairs Council, we talked to Professor
Andrei Zagorski
of MGIMO University, head of department at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences,...
The first in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 series of international seminars aimed at fomenting reform of the OSCE takes place this Thursday, 25 September, in Moscow.
The event, hosted by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), will bring ...
... disputed by the socialists, developed into a healthy and frank discussion on each other’s merits on the road to European and international security. While diplomatic civility was never abandoned, the sometimes acrimonious recrimination allowed participants ... ... doors. Instead, the value of the exercise was immeasurable and should be maintained for whatever future lies ahead for the CSCE/OSCE. It was and must remain a good example of what regional arrangements should do to remain relevant to the rights and interests ...
... dramatic events in Ukraine notably forced a reassessment of the issue of European security. The practically non-existent probability of armed conflict in this part of Europe turned into a reality in a matter of weeks. The most advanced mechanisms of international security in the region, based on the decision-making of the limited number of countries, failed. Stepping-up OSCE activity appeared to be natural measure to provide at least some international monitoring of the security situation in
different Ukrainian regions
. The established OSCE practice of
observing presidential elections
assumed particular significance ...
... Deputy Foreign Minister; Alexander Grushko, Permanent Representative to NATO; Andrey Kelin, Permanent Representative to the OSCE; Ivan Soltanovsky, Director of the European Cooperation Department at Russian Foreign Ministry; Igor Semenenko, Head of Department ... ... MGIMO-University; Sergey Rogov, RAS Member and Director of RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies; Dmitry Danilov, Head of International Security Department at RAS Institute for European Studies; Sergey Utkin, Director of Center for Strategic Assessments ...
