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.
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”.
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