Yearbook 1997

Preface

Giancarlo Aragona

Foreword

Kurt P. Tudyka

Introduction

Dieter S. Lutz

I. The Situation

OSCE: Developments and Prospects

The OSCE in a New Environment

Curt Gasteyger

The USA and the OSCE: Still a Morganatic Union

Jonathan Dean

Russia's OSCE Policy in the Context of Pan-European Developments

Andrej V. Zagorski

The Interests and the Commitment of the OSCE States

Turkey and the OSCE

Faruk Sen / Çigdem Akkaya / Hayrettin Aydin

European Security and the OSCE – A Greek View

Kostas Ifantis

The Republic of Macedonia and the OSCE

Alice Ackermann

The OSCE and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Predrag Simic

Romania and the OSCE

Anda Filip / Marin Stanescu

Bulgaria and the OSCE

Emil Mintchev

II. Instruments, Responsibilities, Mechanisms and Procedures

Conflict Prevention and Settlement of Disputes

Democracy and Human Rights. On the Work of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE

Max van der Stoel

The OSCE Missions to the Baltic States

Falk Lange

The OSCE Missions to the Successor States of the Former Soviet Union

Rolf Welberts

Supporting the Doves against the Hawks. Experiences of the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya

Tim Guldimann

The OSCE's Contribution to the Democratization of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marie-Janine Calic

The Moods of Sarajevo. Excerpts from the Diary of an Observer

Ed van Thijn

The OSCE Mission to Croatia

Joachim Eicher

Albania and the Efforts of the OSCE in 1997

Norbert Mappes-Niediek

The Human Dimension and the Development of Democracy

Minorities in Western Europe – (Not) a Subject for the OSCE?

Hans-Joachim Heintze

The OSCE Is History and Has a History

Freimut Duve

The Building of Co-operative Security

The "European Security Model for the 21st Century" – A Story without an Ending?

Heinrich Schneider

A Future Security Agenda for Europe: The Work of the SIPRI Independent Working Group

Shannon Kile / Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Regional Arms Control in Europe: The Arms Control Agreements under the Dayton Agreement (Mid-1996 until Mid-1997)

Rüdiger Hartmann

When the Past Meets the Future – Adapting the CFE Treaty

Wolfgang Zellner / Pál Dunay

On the Path to a European Security Architecture – The Contribution of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Walter Jürgen Schmid / Michael Klepsch

Economic Transformation and Limitation of New Risks

Security through Co-operation

Rita Süssmuth

No Room for the Trade Unions in the Economic and Human Dimensions of the OSCE?

Tom Etty / Kurt P. Tudyka

III. Organizational Aspects

OSCE Institutions and Structures

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights 1994-1997

Audrey F. Glover

The Vienna Review Conference and the Lisbon Summit of 2 and 3 December 1996

Herbert Honsowitz

The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration: Current Problems

Lucius Caflisch / Laurence Cuny

More Competencies and Functions for the Secretary General?

Michael Klor-Berchtold

The Status of the OSCE under International Law – Current Status and Outlook

Marcus Wenig

External Relations and Influences

Japan and the OSCE

Takako Ueta

The OSCE and the Red Cross Movement

Knut Ipsen

Helsinki from Below: Origin and Development of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA)

Ben Schennink

Annex

Lisbon Document 1996
Annual Report of the OSCE Secretary General 1996
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly – Code of Conduct on Politico-Democratic Aspects of Co-operation
A Future Security Agenda for Europe. Report of the Independent Working Group established by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Forms and Fora of Co-operation in the OSCE Area
The 55 OSCE Participating States – Facts and Figures
OSCE Seminars and Conferences 1996/1997
OSCE Selected Bibliography
Acronyms
Contributors