Can the OSCE contribute to Ukraine’s recovery?
Publications
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans
Hampered by serious problems within some countries of the region and in their relationship with the European Union, the European integration process in the Western Balkans has been uneven and protracted.
Confidence Building in the Shadow of War: Moldova, Transdniestria, and the Uncertain Future of the 5+2 Process
How can the OSCE build and maintain confidence between the parties in the Transdniestrian conflict?
The OSCE and Central Asia: Options for engagement
Three trends, accelerated by the Russian war in Ukraine, characterise the changing geopolitical dynamics in Central Asia: Russia’s declining influence in the region, China’s reluctance to step decisively into this void, and the slowly but unevenly increasing ability of the Central Asian countries to provide an alternative framework for managing regional stability.
Mechanisms for Dialogue: A Contribution to Preventing Civil War Recurrence
In this USIP Discussion Paper, my colleagues Argyro Kartsonaki, Giuditta Fontana, and I argue that the effects of civil war recurrence can be mitigated if peace agreements include mechanisms that enable the warring parties to continue dialogue throughout peace...
Russia’s war against Ukraine: implications for the future of the OSCE
Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine has fundamental consequences for the OSCE. Participating States have fought each other before but there has never been a war of this size and destructiveness in the history of the OSCE or its predecessor, the...
Russia’s War against Ukraine: Implications for the Future of the OSCE
Co-edited with Cornelius Friesendorf, this volume brings together twenty perspectives from across the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions. The questions we collective address centre on whether the OSCE can survive.
In search of an acceptable purpose: Out-of-Area and “peripheral” security challenges in the OSCE’s second dimension
As much as one would wish it to be otherwise, the OSCE faces an existential crisis. It was a troubled organization long before Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, but it is only now that its very survival is increasingly in doubt.
Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and Peace Agreements
Mechanisms to settle disputes arising in the implementation and operation of a political agreement can take various forms, depending on the specific purpose for which they are established.
