The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (Osce) by David J. Galbreath

Author:David J. Galbreath [Galbreath, David J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), General
ISBN: 9781134133529
Google: ubV8AgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 17478837
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

Managing state collapse

Of the five mechanisms of security management, the OSCE has primarily engaged the final two: ceasefire monitoring and post-conflict security-building. Few conflicts have broken out since the early years of the post-Cold War era. For example, of our six case studies, only the Kosovo conflict began after the 1992 Stockholm and Helsinki Documents which established OSCE missions and other security management institutions. Due to the early advent of conflict, it makes sense that the majority of the OSCE work in security management can be characterized by the last two mechanisms. In other words, many of the changes in the OSCE that occurred in the transition from conference to organization were in response to many of the case studies we discuss in this chapter. In order to show the OSCE in terms of managing security, we focus on the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. In the former Soviet Union, we look at OSCE participation in the “frozen conflicts” of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, South Ossetia in Georgia, and Moldova. In the former Yugoslavia, we look at the OSCE missions to Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia. In all the case studies, intra-state ethnic conflict was the nature of the unrest. Where the Soviet Union simply dissolved, Yugoslavia fractured asunder. Thus, it is ironic that the conflicts in the former Soviet Union remain “frozen” while the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have ceased and peace- and state-building has begun. We shall see that this irony is largely explained by one single factor: the Russian Federation. We ask two questions in the following case studies. How has the OSCE been able to cope with conflict in Russia’s “near abroad”? What role has the OSCE played in managing state-collapse and state-building following the end of the “Greater Serbia” project?

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