The OSCE Court: An Overview

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Epochal Change ◽  
East And West

The CSCE/OSCE is linked in public opinion to one of the following headings: Helsinki Final Act and Cold War; arms control and disarmament; crisis management and conflict prevention. This picture is not completely incorrect in that it indicates more than 20 years of CSCE/OSCE history. Being no more than a series of conferences from 1973 to 1990, the ‘old’ CSCE attempted to bridge East and West, and it mainly contributed to developing military aspects of security in Europe. Following the collapse of the former Eastern bloc, the ‘new’ CSCE, later renamed the OSCE, was called upon to assist in managing the epochal change involving the resurgence of regional crises, and it has been equipped with a fully developed organizational and instrumental structure to that end. The most prominent examples of CSCE/OSCE activity in the areas of conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict peacebuilding, are places such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chechnya, or Albania.

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe: Lisbon Document 1996

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-509 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Press ◽  
Heads Of State

The Heads of State of the OSCE met to assess the situation and establish a cooperative foundation for common security; respect for human rights; early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation; arms control; freedom of the press and media; identification and assessment of security-related economic, social and environmental problems; noting achievements of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina; supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia; noting the improving situations in Moldova and Chechnya; noting the need for further dialogue with Mediterranean partners, Japan and South Korea; future meetings

1989: Conclusion and Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Patton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Pussy Riot ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Framework

The conclusion condenses the book’s argument that punk developed through networks that crossed all three worlds through intertwined phenomena of immigration, postmodernism, and globalization; that punks and societies’ reactions to it defied and subverted the fundamental assumptions and categories of the Cold War era; and that punk provoked a realignment away from sociopolitical, ideological categories and toward a new framework emphasizing identities as conservatives and progressives. It briefly examines the post-1989 punk scenes of the East and West; many punks felt as dissatisfied with the global neoliberal order as they were with the Cold War world and often joined the new antiglobalization movements of the East and West. It concludes with the example of Pussy Riot in Russia, which shows that punk retained its power to consolidate forces of reaction (Putin, the Orthodox Church, and conservative public opinion) and cultural progressives alike long after the end of the Cold War.

OSZE-Jahrbuch 2017

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Conflict Prevention

The responsibilities and activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: from conflict prevention and crisis management via the promotion of democracy and human rights to arms control – analysis and reports on its political and diplomatic practice.

John Erickson, 1929–2002

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Western Group ◽  
Soviet Communism ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

John Erickson made his mark as a historian, scholar, soldier and military analyst during a period of major upheaval in international relations after the Second World War — especially in Europe — and during the clash between Soviet Communism and the Western group of nations which became known as the Cold War. He was actively involved in efforts to establish an informed academic dialogue between East and West on arms control issues. The earliest initiative came to Edinburgh through a process which became known as the Edinburgh Conversations.

In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Roxana Verona
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
French Language ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Contact Zones ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
French Intellectuals

Roxana Verona’s piece is based on her own lived experience. Verona’s text is a testimony on life in Romania during the Cold War. In it, Verona underscores the importance—for beleaguered Romanians in a ‘forgotten’ Eastern bloc satellite—of ‘contact zones’ between East and West. For Verona and others, the French language, French literature, and French intellectuals served as one of the most vital of those grey zones between the capitalist and Communist worlds.

Strengthening the OSCE's capacities in conflict prevention, crisis management and conflict resolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Alice Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Response ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Early Action ◽  
Ministerial Council ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
Action Dialogue

AbstractTwenty years after the 1992 Helsinki Document — Challenges of Change, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) agreed at the 2011 Ministerial Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, on a decision intended to strengthen the OSCE's capacities in early warning, early action, dialogue facilitation and mediation-support as well as post-conflict rehabilitation. MC Decision 3/11 is an important one, in particular, as OSCE participating States were required to revisit the Organization's approach to conflict prevention and resolution over the last three years. The outcome was been an impressive document that demands the implementation of concrete action toward the creation of a systematic early warning and mediation-support capacity and the enhancement of early response to emerging crisis and conflict situations.

Trust, but Verify

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West

This book uses trust—with its emotional and predictive aspects—to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The détente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lessened international tensions and enabled advances in areas such as arms control. However, it also created uncertainty in other areas, especially on the part of smaller states that depended on their alliance leaders for protection. The chapters in this volume look at how the “emotional” side of the conflict affected the dynamics of various Cold War relations: between the superpowers, within the two ideological blocs, and inside individual countries on the margins of the East–West confrontation.

A Bifurcated Global Nuclear Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

The very destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes them unusable for ethical and military reasons. The world has placed growing restrictions on the full range of nuclear programs and activities. But with the five NPT nuclear powers failing to eliminate nuclear arsenals, other countries acquiring the bomb, arms control efforts stalled, nuclear risks climbing, and growing awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, the United Nations adopted a new treaty to ban the bomb. Some technical anomalies between the 1968 and 2017 treaties will need to be harmonized and the nuclear-armed states’ rejection of the ban treaty means it will not eliminate any nuclear warheads. However, it will have a significant normative impact in stigmatizing the possession, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons and serve as a tool for civil society to mobilize domestic and world public opinion against the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

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