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The Marginalization of the OSCE

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The eighth chapter briefly describes the decline of the OSCE—the largest security organization in the Euro-Atlantic area, encompassing 57 states, and disposing of unique, so-called soft security ensuring instruments. This process was due to the dominant position in the entire system of NATO, an institution with hard security guarantees. Attempts to revive the OSCE were undertaken in 2010 at the Astana Summit, and then during the Ukraine crisis, in which the OSCE, as the sole multilateral institution, played a modest role in the monitoring of the cease-fire agreements concluded in Minsk in 2014 and 2015. The OSCE still has a chance of playing a greater role in the shaping of the Euro-Atlantic security system, but this would require an agreement between its principal participants, especially the western countries and Russia.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Heraclides (1993a), pp. 100–108. For more, see Lehne (1991), Ghebali (1989).

  2. 2.

    Giscard d’Estaing (1995).

  3. 3.

    Charter of Paris for a New Europe (1991).

  4. 4.

    Ibidem.

  5. 5.

    For more, see von Bredow (1992), Heraclides (1993b), pp. 13–19, McGoldrick (1993), Sneek (1994), Kovács (1994), Szonyi (1994), Mötölä (1995).

  6. 6.

    Pismo ministra inostrannykh del Rossiyskoy Federatsii … (1994). See also Kokkinides (1995), pp. 92–93, Deacaux (1994), Kozyrev (1994).

  7. 7.

    Kokkinides (1995), p. 93.

  8. 8.

    Charter for European Security (1999).

  9. 9.

    Lisbon Declaration on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe … (1996).

  10. 10.

    For more, see Zięba (2004), pp. 326–342.

  11. 11.

    Informacja Rządu na temat polskiej polityki zagranicznej … (2006).

  12. 12.

    National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland (2007), p. 14.

  13. 13.

    Lukyanov (2009), Layton (2014), Dunay and Herd (2010), Lomagin (2015), p. 181 et seq. In Kanet (2010), Karaganov and Bordachev (2009, December 8–10).

  14. 14.

    Kortunov (2010), Karaganov (2010), Grudziński and Pietrusiewicz (2001), pp. 54–55.

  15. 15.

    Stent (2014), p. 239.

  16. 16.

    Kropatcheva (2012), p. 382.

  17. 17.

    Astana Commemorative Declaration (2010).

  18. 18.

    See Deutsch et al. (1957), p. 5.

  19. 19.

    Zlecone: Rezultaty szczytu OBWE … (2010).

  20. 20.

    They were the Centre for OSCE Research (CORE) at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), the Foundation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Russian Foreign Ministry (MGIMO).

  21. 21.

    Haltzel (2016).

  22. 22.

    Schläpfer (2016), Haug (2016).

  23. 23.

    Hopmann (2015).

  24. 24.

    Back to Diplomacy: Final Report … (2015).

  25. 25.

    Mosser (2015), p. 579 et seq.

  26. 26.

    Kupchan (2010).

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Zięba, R. (2018). The Marginalization of the OSCE. In: The Euro-Atlantic Security System in the 21st Century. Global Power Shift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79105-0_8

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