IFSH: Yearbook 2009

Victor-Yves Ghebali – An Appreciation

Wolfgang Zellner

I. States of Affairs – Affairs of State

The OSCE and European Security: Focus on the Corfu Process

Does Europe Need a New Security Architecture?

Adam Daniel Rotfeld

The Russian Proposal for a Treaty on European Security: From the Medvedev Initiative to the Corfu Process

Andrei Zagorski

Do We Need a New European Security Culture? Why the Best of Détente Is Yet to Come

Egon Bahr / Reinhard Mutz

Redesigning Europe? The Pitfalls and the Promises of the European Security Treaty Initiative

Pál Dunay / Graeme P. Herd

The OSCE Participating States: Domestic Developments and Multilateral Commitment

US Foreign Policy in the Post-Bush Era: Implications for Europe and the OSCE

Dennis J.D. Sandole

The OSCE and European Security – A Lithuanian Perspective

Renatas Norkus

Belarus at the Crossroads? Prospects for Co-operation with the EU, Council of Europe, and OSCE

Astrid Sahm

Ukraine's Stable Instability

Elena Kropatcheva

II. Responsibilities, Instruments, Mechanisms, and Procedures

Conflict Prevention and Dispute Settlement

Fighting Domestic Abuse – The OSCE Women’s Access to Justice Project in Albania

Robert Bosch

Military Aspects of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ulrich Heider

The OSCE in the New International Environment in Kosovo

Marcin Czapliński

How Can Confidence and Security Be Restored in Moldova?

Bernard Aussedat

Nagorno-Karabakh: Ever Closer to a Settlement, Step-by-Step

Tim Potier

The OSCE Centre in Astana at Ten: Activities and New Directions

Alexandre Keltchewsky

OSCE Mechanisms and Procedures Related to Early Warning, Conflict Prevention, and Crisis Management

Alice Ackermann

Comprehensive Security: The Three Dimensions and Cross-Dimensional Challenges

OSCE Election Observation Commitments, Methodology, Criticism

Frank Evers

Aspects of the Decline of Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region

Aaron Rhodes

Are De Facto Regimes Bound by Human Rights?

Hans-Joachim Heintze

Ministerial Council Decision No. 7/08 on Strengthening the Rule of Law – The Search for Common Ground in the Third Dimension

Lorenz Barth

The OSCE’s Comprehensive Approach to Border Security and Management

Herbert Salber / Alice Ackermann

Police Reform as a "Solicitous Siege" – International Actors and Local Subversion in the Balkans

Stephan Hensell

III. Organizational Aspects

OSCE Institutions and Structures

The Spirit of Helsinki 2.0 – The Finnish OSCE Chairmanship 2008

Janne Taalas / Kari Möttölä

Kazakhstan and Its Preparations for the OSCE Chairmanship in 2010

Bulat Sultanov

External Relations and Influence

The Platform for Co-operative Security: Ten Years of Co-operation

Oleksandr Pavlyuk

Current Activities of the Council of the Baltic Sea States Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings

Anna Ekstedt

From the OSCE Cluster of Competence to the Focus on the OSCE

Daniel Warner / Marianne von Grünigen / Andrei Zagorski / Vesna Marinkovic

Annexes

Forms and Forums of Co-operation in the OSCE Area
The 56 OSCE Participating States – Facts and Figures
OSCE Conferences, Meetings, and Events 2008/2009
OSCE Selected Bibliography 2008/2009
Abbreviations
Contributors