The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe at 50

This book traces the development of the OSCE from the opening of negotiations in 1973 of the Helsinki Final Act up to its 50th anniversary in 2025, focusing on the transition from a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe (and the US and Canada) during the final 15 years of the Cold War to its post-Cold war focus on managing conflicts in the post-communist regions of Europe after the Cold War. It analyzes developments in this region as a competition between realist and liberal/institutionalist ideas, arguing that the OSCE was constructed by its participating states as a liberal international institution that has succumbed to a renewal of "realist" ideas and actions that have reappeared in the first 25 years of the 21st century and have thereby threatened its effectiveness in enhancing security, cooperation and peace in Europe, culminating with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

traces the development of the OSCE from its opening until today focuses on the OSCE post-Cold war transformation examines the OSCEs transformation from a liberal international institution to a realist one

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P. Terrence Hopmann is currently a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Institute and previously directed the Conflict Management Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS from 2008-15. He is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Political Science Department at Brown University, where he was director of the Global Security Program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute of International Studies, the Center for Foreign Policy Development and the International Relations Program; was professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and director of its Center for International Studies; served as vice president of the International Studies Association and program chair of three ISA international meetings; was editor of the International Studies Quarterly; was a Fulbright Fellow in Belgium and Austria, and a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Part I: Introduction to the OSCE.- Chapter 1: Institutionalizing Security and Cooperation in Europe and Across the Atlantic.- Chapter 2: The OSCE and International Relations Theory.- Part II: The OSCE History and Structure.- Chapter 3: The Origins of the CSCE During the Cold War.- Chapter 4: Expansion and Decline of the OSCE after the End of the Cold War.- Chapter 5: The Organizational Structures and Roles of the OSCE.- Part III: Long-Term Structural Conflict Prevention.- Chapter 6: Principles of Structural Conflict Prevention The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 7: Structural Conflict Prevention in the Baltic States: Estonia and Latvia.- Chapter 8: Structural Conflict Prevention in Central Asia.- Chapter 9: Structural Conflict Prevention in Belarus.- Part IV: Short-term Operational Conflict Prevention.- Chapter 10: Operational Conflict Prevention The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 11: Operational Conflict Prevention in Ukraine Crimea, 1992-99.- Chapter 12: Operational Conflict Prevention in Kosovo, 1992-2008.- Chapter 13: Operational Conflict Prevention in [North] Macedonia, 1991-2002.- Chapter 14: Operational Conflict Prevention in Georgia South Ossetia and Abkhazia, 1991-2008.- Part V: The OSCE Role in Post-Conflict Stabilization and Peacebuilding.- Chapter 15: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 16: The OSCE Minsk Group - Managing the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, 1993-2020.- Chapter 17: Post-Conflict Stabilization in Bosnia-Herzegovina.- Chapter 18: Mediating Conflict in Moldova - Transdniestria and Gagauzia.- Part VI: Managing Violent Conflicts: Crisis and War.- Chapter 19: Managing Violent Conflict The OSCE Approach.- Chapter 20: Promoting an End to War in Chechnya, 1991-99.- Chapter 21: The OSCE Minsk Prrocess in Ukraine, 2013-2022.- Part VII: Conclusions: The OSCE at 50: What is its Future?.- Chapter 22: Can the OSCE Find a New Role after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine?.- Chapter 23: Conclusion: Security Cooperation in the OSCE is What States Make of It.