IFSH: Yearbook 2014

Preface

Ursel Schlichting

Guiding Spirit and Man of the First Hour. In Memoriam: Jonathan Dean

Reinhard Mutz / Götz Neuneck

I. State of Affairs – Affairs of State

The OSCE and European Security: Focus on Helsinki +40 against the Background of the Ukraine Crisis

The 2014 Swiss OSCE Chairmanship: Between "Routine" and "Crisis"

Heidi Grau

Forty Years of the Helsinki Final Act – A Cause for Celebration?

Marianne von Grüningen / Hans-Jörg Renk

Europe Needs the OSCE, Just As It Did 40 Years Ago

Igor Iwanow

Approaching Four Decades – What the Serbian Chairmanship Wishes to Achieve in the OSCE's Jubilee Year

Ivica Dačić

Helsinki +40 and the Crisis in Ukraine

Fred Tanner

OSCE Field Operations in the Helsinki +40 Process: A Case Study on the Presence in Tajikistan

Jafar Usmanov

The OSCE and Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter – Contributing to Global Peace and Security

Lamberto Zannier

US-Russia Relations in the Obama Era: From Reset to Refreeze?

Steven Pifer

The OSCE Participating States: Domestic Developments and Multilateral Commitment

Staging Legitimacy: Mechanisms for Power Retention in Turkmenistan

Hendrik Meurs

Broken Dreaming: The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Graeme Currie

Mongolia and the OSCE

Adiyasuren Jamiyandagva

II. Responsibilities, Instruments, Mechanisms, and Procedures

Conflict Prevention and Dispute Settlement

Minsk Group Mediation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Confronting an "Intractable Conflict"

P. Terrence Hopmann

Focus on the Ukraine Crisis

The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine: Operational Challenges and New Horizons

Claus Neukirch

Russia and Ukraine: Victory Is not Possible; Defeat Is not an Option

Graeme P. Herd

What Makes Russia Tick?

Tatyana Parkhalina

Ukrainian Civil Society from the Orange Revolution to Euromaidan: Striving for a New Social Contract

Iryna Solonenko

Lessons to Learn: The Effect of the Ukraine Crisis on European and Euro-Atlantic Security

Pál Dunay

Comprehensive Security: The Three Dimensions and Cross-Dimensional Challenges

Election Observation as a Point of Contention between the Russian Federation and ODIHR

Francesco Marchesano

Military Confidence-Building and Conventional Arms Control in Europe against the Background of the Ukraine Crisis

Rüdiger Lüdeking

Organizational Aspects

OSCE Institutions and Structures

The OSCE Academy: Working for Long-Term Comprehensive Security in Central Asia

Shairbek Juraev

External Relations and Influence

The Afghanistan Conflict As a Power Resource for Central Asia?

Sebastian Schiek

The OSCE Mediterranean Partnership Four Years after the Start of the "Arab Spring"

Loïc Simonet

Assessing the Success of EU-OSCE Co-operation: A Case of Mutualism?

Dimitar Paunov

Annexes

Forms and Forums of Co-operation in the OSCE Area
The 57 OSCE Participating States – Facts and Figures
OSCE Conferences, Meetings, and Events 2013/2014
OSCE Selected Bibliography 2013/2014
Abbreviations
Contributors