... through the lens of its rivalry with China. American strategic planning now sees Europe mainly as a market and an auxiliary partner, not a driver of global policy.
The Trump administration’s economic policies highlight this shift. Measures targeting Russia, for example, are often less about Moscow and more about Beijing or other major powers. Even the conflict in Ukraine, while grave, is treated by many in Washington as a pawn in broader geopolitical chess.
Consider, too, the OSCE’s diminished role in managing real-world conflicts. One recent case illustrates the point: proposals to establish an extraterritorial corridor through Armenia, protected by an American private military company. This idea may never materialize, ...
... “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 often just premature truths” (Alphonse de Lamartine)
It is time for the West to finally let go of its desire to always be on top. And Germany should set an example in this regard. Given its geographical ...
... 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 ... ... with a consolidated position, which excluded even minor manifestations of justice in relation to the basic interests of others: Russia, Kazakhstan or smaller states outside the European Union and NATO.
The fact that only Russia actively opposed it is connected ...
... 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 ... ... of the EU was taken into account in its creation, the main institutions of the EAEU are far from what exists to the west of Russia’s borders. In reality, the EU is also a product of the balance of power, where the interaction between Germany and France ...
... this spring. The cases for withdrawal range from ideological (“the OSCE promotes values alien to Russians”) to financial (“Russia could make a better use of EUR 8 million that it annually contributes to the OSCE budget”).
Some hope that the OSCE, without Russia, would not be able to function, perhaps even losing its legitimacy as a pan-European institution. Moscow, for its part, could start an alternative “Eurasian” OSCE—for example, on the basis of the SCO or some other Russia-friendly multilateral ...
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 conference on the future of the OSCE in the context of the ...
... 2010. V. 54. No. 1. P. 243–246, 255.
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// OSCE Insights 2021: Identifying Common Ground. – Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022. P. 13–25.
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Zagorski A. Russia and the OSCE // OSCE Insights 2021: Identifying Common Ground. – Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020. P. 77–84.
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Härtel A., Pisarenko A., Umland A. The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine: the ...
... example in the Persian Gulf or in the Taiwan strait not to mention its numerous military adventures in 20-21 centuries. The Russian forces initially were not meant to enter Ukraine from north, or north-east or south. The only viable military option was ... ... 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 ...
... our colleagues from the United States, NATO and the European Union make constant appeals for ‘de-escalation’ and call on Russia to ‘choose a path of diplomacy’. We want to remind: we have been moving along that path for decades. The key milestones,... ... diplomacy. The very fact that the West now tries to revise to its benefit these diplomatic achievements of the leaders of all OSCE countries raises serious concern. The situation demands a frank clarification of positions.
We want to receive a clear answer ...
... public administration, has already existed longer than the Soviet Union. Although it did lose its eastern provinces back in 1971, which would later become the independent state of Bangladesh.
Andrey Kortunov:
To Stay or Not to Stay? Seven Concerns Russia Has about the OSCE
Besides, potentials of the legs in both pairs are obviously asymmetric. India is far larger, richer and stronger than Pakistan, while the same is true for Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine. That said, neither Pakistan nor Ukraine is so weak that India or ...
