OSCE Insights 2025: Leveraging a Broad Mandate

Dr. Cornelius Friesendorf; Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki

doi:10.5771/9783748960751

Summary

OSCE Insights: Leveraging a Broad Mandate 50 years after the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to challenge the OSCE as a vital pillar of European security. However, the papers in this volume of OSCE Insights demonstrate how the OSCE, including the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has used its broad mandate to run activities even in the absence of cooperative security. Contributions discuss topics such as the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's experience in counter-terrorism, the OSCE's efforts to mitigate the risks of climate change, and conflict management options in Ukraine. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-3299-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-6075-1
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 96
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Overview of contributions
3. Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
2. 1. Establishment, challenges, and value
  2. Focus
  3. Composition
  4. Activities and human rights
3. 1. Policymaking
  2. Implementing the international counterterrorism legal framework
  3. Promoting international cooperation
4. Recommendations
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1. Introduction
2. Early diplomatic failures: From Geneva to the OSCE Roadmap
3. A framework of frustration: The Normandy Format and the stalled peace process in Ukraine
4. Beyond negotiation: The TCG’s multifaceted role in conflict resolution
5. The OSCE in Ukraine: Challenges to inclusive dialogue facilitation and monitoring
6. The illusion of compromise: Why Poroshenko’s peace initiative was doomed
7. The Minsk agreements: A framework for peace or a tool for Russian influence?
8. A fragile watch: The SMM’s limited impact on ceasefire implementation
9. Diplomatic illusions: The Minsk agreements and the road to war
10. Conclusions and recommendations
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1. Introduction
2. 1. Climate change and security
  2. Past and present OSCE engagement
3. 1. Facilitating dialogue, joint understanding, and solutions
  2. Supporting cooperation across sectors and levels
  3. Bridging political divides
4. Conclusion and recommendations
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1. Introduction
2. 1. Ceasefire: What’s in the name?
3. 1. Windows of silence
  2. Disengagement areas
4. Conclusions and recommendations
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1. 1. Methodology
2. 1. Normative frameworks, political resistance
  2. OSCE institutions and gender-responsive SSR
  3. OSCE institutions and CRSV
3. 1. Ukraine
  2. Mali
4. Conclusion and recommendations
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1. Introduction
2. 1. Beyond the binary: Addressing the GONGO-NGO distinction
3. Performing democracy: GONGOs and the transnational spread of virtual politics
4. Rebutting criticism and opposition: Defensive narrative strategies
5. 1. Efforts to regulate NGO participation in OSCE events
  2. Taking up space at OSCE events
  3. Challenging the principles of universal human rights
6. Conclusion and recommendations

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