The OSCE Yearbook 2009, which was
published in early 2010, contains a wealth of informed writing on the
Organization, its activities, and the issues that concern it. It
opens with four contributions written by leading European security
experts: Adam Daniel Rotfeld asks whether Europe needs a “new
security architecture”, Andrei Zagorski addresses President
Medvedev’s proposal for a Treaty on European Security and the
resulting “Corfu Process”, as do Pál Dunay and Graeme P. Herd,
while Egon Bahr and Reinhard Mutz discuss the future of détente.
The participating States in focus
this year are Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus; Dennis
Sandole also examines the implications of US foreign policy in the
post-Bush era for Europe. The OSCE conflict
prevention and dispute settlement activities discussed include the
prospects for conflict resolution in Moldova, the role of the Mission
in Kosovo, military aspects of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the OSCE Centre in Astana at ten, and prospects for
conflict settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turning to the three dimensions,
contributions include an in-depth consideration of the OSCE’s
election observation activities by Frank Evers and an informed legal
discussion of de facto regimes and human rights by Hans-Joachim
Heintze. Our authors also discuss problems facing human rights
defenders, contradictions in international police reform, the OSCE’s
approach to border security and management, and the legacy of
Professor Victor Yves Ghebali, who died this year.
Institute
for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of
Hamburg/IFSH (ed.), OSCE Yearbook 2009, Yearbook on the Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Vol. 15, Nomos,
Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5336-2, € 69.
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