... and largely respected.
That system no longer exists. The global order that emerged after 1945 has disintegrated, with no clear replacement. The post-Cold War attempts to graft a Western-led system onto the rest of Europe succeeded only briefly. The OSCE, which evolved from the CSCE, became a vehicle for imposing Western norms on others – a role it can no longer credibly perform.
Despite the growing need for cooperation in an unstable world, the OSCE today exists mostly in theory. The notion of ...
... Russia. Traveling, meeting people, exchanging ideas—all without “supervised government warnings,” must be possible.
There is no need for governmental institutions. All we need is our own initiative.
However, it would also be possible to give the OSCE a more active and central role in the reconstruction of Europe. The OSCE is one of the few organizations whose member states span the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia and include Russia. A total of 57 states are members.
“Utopias are ...
... became, in a natural way, if not directly opposed to the desires of the rest of the international community, then it took into account such desires in the very last place. The dramatic fate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) after the Cold War is a great illustration. The Western countries were immediately able to act within the framework of this institution with a consolidated position, which excluded even minor manifestations of justice in relation to the basic interests ...
... of 1975 and then after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. The SCO, in turn, was created without taking into account the balance of forces among the participants. Moreover, they were not in opposition to each other, which would have to be regulated. The OSCE crisis begins with the end of the Cold War, when the balance of power shifted. The SCO demonstrates stability because there is no balance of power in it at all. The development of this organisation is subject to other principles of interstate interaction ...
Why the OSCE remains important in the current settings
Poland’s defiant refusal to allow the Russian foreign minister’s attendance at the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Lodz on December 1-2 provoked a boisterous diplomatic uproar. As might be expected,...
On October 21–22, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), in partnership with the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs, hosted an international conference on the future of the OSCE in the context of the acute crisis in relations between Russia and the West
On October 21–22, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), in partnership with the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs, hosted an international ...
This article concentrates on discussing the OSCE performance during the crisis
At the beginning of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, the OSCE acted unexpectedly promptly for an organization deeply divided for years. Although the revitalization of its relatively autonomous institutions and mechanisms ...
... considerable destabilisation or provocation on the contact line.
Recently the Ukrainian forces on the contact line sharply intensified the shelling of the separatists’ positions, which returned fire. Who has been doing what is clearly obvious from the OSCE Monitoring Mission maps (for example, for 17-19 February). What was also very strange that the US and UK called off their stuff from the mission, which could be taken as their desire to prevent the mission from further monitoring.
The last straw ...
... indivisible security that is fundamental to the entire European security architecture. We believe it is necessary to immediately clarify this issue, as it will determine the prospects for future dialogue.
The Charter for European Security signed at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul in November 1999 formulated key rights and obligations of the OSCE participating States with respect to indivisibility of security. It underscored the right of each participating State to be free to choose or change its security ...
The OSCE can provide framework conditions for conflict resolution, but these must be in demand among the political actors in order to for the potential to be realized
On December 2–3, 2021, a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council was held. Amid the ...
