Ending Up Somewhere Else: The Need for Strategy in the OSCE
Journal: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks
Year: 2022

This paper examines past attempts to develop a strategy within the OSCE, their limited success, and their impact on the Organization. It also looks at how the war in Ukraine and tensions between Russia and the West have triggered a strategic rethink of security in Europe and what implications this could have for the Organization. The paper concludes that while it has been difficult for the OSCE to develop a strategy by design, it may have to develop a strategy by necessity-both to save itself an