Contents
Ursel Schlichting
Preface
Reinhard Mutz/Götz Neuneck
Guiding Spirit and Man of the First Hour.
In Memoriam: Jonathan Dean
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I. States of Affairs – Affairs of State
The OSCE and European Security: Focus on Helsinki +40
against the Background of the Ukraine Crisis
Heidi Grau
The 2014 Swiss OSCE Chairmanship:
Between “Routine” and “Crisis”
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Marianne von Grünigen/Hans-Jörg Renk
Forty Years of the Helsinki Final Act –
A Cause for Celebration?
41
Igor Ivanov
Europe Needs the OSCE, Just As It Did 40 Years Ago
53
Ivica Dačić
Approaching Four Decades – What the Serbian Chairmanship
Wishes to Achieve in the OSCE’s Jubilee Year
61
Fred Tanner
Helsinki +40 and the Crisis in Ukraine
69
Jafar Usmanov
OSCE Field Operations in the Helsinki +40 Process:
A Case Study on the Presence in Tajikistan
83
Lamberto Zannier
The OSCE and Chapter VIII of the United Nations
Charter – Contributing to Global Peace and Security
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Steven Pifer
US-Russia Relations in the Obama Era:
From Reset to Refreeze?
111
The OSCE Participating States:
Domestic Developments and Multilateral Commitment
Hendrik Meurs
Staging Legitimacy: Mechanisms for Power
Retention in Turkmenistan
127
Graeme Currie
Broken Dreaming: The 2014 Scottish
Independence Referendum
141
Adiyasuren Jamiyandagva
Mongolia and the OSCE
155
II. Responsibilities, Instruments, Mechanisms,
and Procedures
Conflict Prevention and Dispute Settlement
P. Terrence Hopmann
Minsk Group Mediation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict:
Confronting an “Intractable Conflict”
167
Focus on the Ukraine Crisis
Claus Neukirch
The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine:
Operational Challenges and New Horizons
183
Graeme P. Herd
Russia and Ukraine: Victory Is not Possible;
Defeat Is not an Option
199
Tatyana Parkhalina
What Makes Russia Tick?
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Iryna Solonenko
Ukrainian Civil Society from the Orange Revolution to
Euromaidan: Striving for a New Social Contract
219
Pál Dunay
Lessons to Learn: The Effect of the Ukraine Crisis on
European and Euro-Atlantic Security
237
Comprehensive Security: The Three Dimensions and
Cross-Dimensional Challenges
Francesco Marchesano
Election Observation as a Point of Contention
between the Russian Federation and ODIHR
263
Rüdiger Lüdeking
Military Confidence-Building and Conventional Arms Control
in Europe against the Background of the Ukraine Crisis
275
III. Organizational Aspects
OSCE Institutions and Structures
Shairbek Juraev
The OSCE Academy: Working for Long-Term
Comprehensive Security in Central Asia
287
External Relations and Influence
Sebastian Schiek
The Afghanistan Conflict As a Power
Resource for Central Asia?
301
Loïc Simonet
The OSCE Mediterranean Partnership Four Years
after the Start of the “Arab Spring”
315
Dimitar Paunov
Assessing the Success of EU-OSCE Co-operation:
A Case of Mutualism?
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Annexes
Forms and Forums of Co-operation in the OSCE Area
355
The 57 OSCE Participating States – Facts and Figures
357
OSCE Conferences, Meetings, and Events 2013/2014
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OSCE Selected Bibliography 2013/2014
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Abbreviations
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Contributors
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