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OSCE Yearbook 2008

 

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Preface by the Chairman-in-Office
Foreword
   
I. State of Affairs - Affairs of State
   
Focus on the Georgian-South Ossetian Conflict
   
Frozen Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union – The Case of Georgia/South Ossetia
The OSCE Mission to Georgia and the Status of South Ossetia
Elena Kropatcheva Russia’s Response to Georgia’s Military Operation in South Ossetia
David Aprasidze State-Building and Democratization in Georgia: Have the Limits Been Reached?
   
The OSCE and European Security
   
The Future Impact of the OSCE: Business as Usual or Revitalization?
The Current State of European Security
   
Burning Issues
   
The Kosovo Status Process and the Prospect of Sovereignty
   
The OSCE States: Their Interests and Commitment
   
Julie Finley The United States View of the OSCE in 2007: Looking Back and Moving Forward on an Enduring Partnership
Margit Hellwig-Bötte Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship – The Road to Europe?
   
   
II. Responsibilities, Instruments, Mechanisms, and Procedures
   
Conflict Prevention and Dispute Settlement
   
How Effective Is the OSCE’s Promotion of Democracy? Analytical Considerations of the Effectiveness of the Long-Term Missions in South-Eastern Europe
The Closure and Restructuring of OSCE Field Operations: The Case of the OSCE Mission to Croatia
Sebastian Dworack Macedonia and Its OSCE Mission 2006-2008: Trouble Making the Grade
Tajikistan and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: Global Problems through the Prism of a Single Country
   
The Human Dimension and Democratic Development
   
The OSCE – a Club of “Dyed-in-the-Wool Democrats”?
The OSCE’s Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings
   
Building Co-operative Security
   
The OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) –
Stocktaking and Outlook
   
Economic Transformation and the Containment of Emerging Risks
   
Promotion of Security and Co-operation through Water Management Activities
Economic and Environmental Security Should Remain
Key Components of the OSCE’s Core Mandate
   
III. Organizational Aspects
   
   
   
OSCE Institutions and Structures
   
   
Knut Vollebæk Fifteen Years of Conflict Prevention by the High Commissioner on National Minorities
Arnaud Amouroux The OSCE Media Freedom Representative Turns Ten:
Current and Future Challenges to Press Freedom in the OSCE Region
Kurt P. Tudyka The Spanish OSCE Chairmanship 2007
Anna Kreikemeyer Preparing for the OSCE Chairmanship – CORE Training Courses and Capacity Building
   
   
   
External Relations and Influence
   
   
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut OSCE Engagement with Afghanistan
Frank Evers OSCE Co-operation with China: Relevance, Benefits, and Downsides
   
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