All Resources: The OSCE and Its Contribution to the Stabilization of Central and Eastern European Countries

Heiko Borchert and Wolfgang Zellner

References

Internet

Official information about the OSCE can be found at www.osce.org. Among the various documents posted on this site, special attention should be given to the 1990 Paris Charter outlining the organization's post-Cold War raison d'être. It can be found at http://www.osce.org/docs/english/1990-1999/summits/paris90e.htm.

The Secretary-General's annual reports are ready for download at http://www.osce.org/docs/english/anualrepe.htm. Detailed information about the activities of the OSCE institutions can be found at http://www.osce.org/structures_institutions/, and news about the field activities is available at http://www.osce.org/field_activities/.

Co-operation between Europe's security organizations, based on the idea of "interlocking institutions," has been described more fully in the Platform for European Security adopted with the 1999 Charter for European Security. The document is available at http://www.osce.org/docs/english/1990-1999/summits/istachart99e.htm.

Academic research on the OSCE has so far been very difficult to find. The OSCE Networking Project at http://www.isnh.ethz.ch/osce facilitates access to secondary literature, researchers, research projects, archives, depository libraries, and related links.

Besides the OSCE and other international organizations, non-profit organizations support the transition to democracy as well. Freedom House provides regular assessments of the state of democracy and freedom around the world at http://www.freedomhouse.org. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group, http://www.crisisweb.org, also provides important and constructive analyses of hot spots dealt with by the OSCE.

Books and Articles

Ackermann, Alice. "On the Razor's Edge: Macedonia Ten Years after Independence." In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg/IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

Adler, Emanuel. "Seeds of Peaceful Change: The OSCE Security Community-Building Model." In Security Communities, edited by Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Barry, Robert. The OSCE: A Forgotten Transatlantic Security Organization? (London: British American Security Information Council, BASIC Research Report 2002.3, 2002).

Bellamy, Alex J. and Stuart Griffin. "OSCE Peacekeeping: Lessons from the Kosovo Verification Mission." European Security 11:1 (2002): 1-26.

Bollow, Undine. "The OSCE Missions to Estonia and Latvia." In OSCE Yearbook 1999, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2000).

Borchert, Heiko. "Strengthening Europe's Security Architecture: Where Do We Stand? Where Should We Go?" In Europe's New Security Challenges, edited by Heinz Gärtner, Adrian Hyde-Price, and Erich Reiter. (Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).

Büscher, Klemens. "The Missions to the Republic of Moldova and to Ukraine: A Double-Entry Balance Sheet." In OSCE Yearbook 1999, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2000).

Buzan, Barry, Ole Waever and Jaap de Wilde. Security. A New Framework for Analysis. (Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).

Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Preventing Deadly Conflict. Final Report. (Washington, DC: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1997).

Cohen, Richard and Michael Mihalka. Cooperative Security: New Horizons for International Order. (Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, The Marshall Center Papers, No. 3, 2001).

Du Pont, Yannick. "Democratization Through Supporting Civil Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Helsinki Monitor 11:4 (2000): 7-18.

Everts, Daan W. "The OSCE Mission in Kosovo." In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

Fend, Walter J. "Croatia—A New Era?" In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

Flynn, Gregory and Henry Farrell. "Piecing Together the Democratic Peace: The CSCE and the 'Construction' of Security in Post-Cold War Europe." International Organization 53:3 (1999): 505-536.

Hill, William. "Making Istanbul a Reality: Moldova, Russia, and the Withdrawal from Transdniestria." Helsinki Monitor 13:2 (2002): 129-145.

Hopman, P. Terrence. "An Evaluation of the OSCE's Role in Conflict Management." In Europe's New Security Challenges, edited by Heinz Gärtner, Adrian Hyde-Price, and Erich Reiter. (Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).

Imholz, Kathleen. "The OSCE Presence in Albania: From a State of Emergency to a Consolidated State." In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

International Crisis Group. The OSCE in Central Asia: A New Strategy. (Osh/Brussels: International Crisis Group, ICG Asia Report No. 38, 2002).

Kemp, Walter. Quiet Diplomacy in Action. The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001).

Lachowski, Zdzislaw and Adam Daniel Rotfeld. "Success or Failure? CSBMs in the Post-Cold War Environment." In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

Lenzi, Guido. "Climbing Down from Peace-Enforcement: The Growing Importance of Conflict Prevention and Resolution and the Role of the OSCE in Europe." In Challenges Faced by the OSCE During 2001, edited by Daniel Warner and Valérie Clerc. (Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies, Program for the Study of International Organizations, PSIO Occasional Paper No. 2, 2002).

Matveev, Alexander. "The OSCE Identity Crisis." In OSCE Yearbook 1999, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2000).

Oberschmidt, Randolf. "Ten Years of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights—An Interim Assessment." In OSCE Yearbook 2001, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics at the University of Hamburg /IFSH. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).

Oberschmidt, Randolf and Wolfgang Zellner. OSCE at the Crossroads. (Hamburg: Centre for OSCE Research, CORE Working Paper No. 2, 2001).

OSCE. OSCE Handbook, 3rd ed. (Vienna: OSCE, 2000).

OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. OSCE Human Dimension Commitments: A Reference Guide. (Warsaw: ODIHR, 2001).

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Freedom and Responsibility. Yearbook 2001/2002. (Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, 2002, available at http://www.osce.org/fom7documents/books/yearbook.php3).

Russett, Bruce. Grasping the Democratic Peace. Principles for a Post-Cold War World. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Schimmelfennig, Frank. "International Socialization in the New Europe. Rational Action in an Institutional Environment." European Journal of International Relations 6:1 (2000): 109-139.

Simmons, Beth A. and Lisa L. Martin. "International Organizations and Institutions." In Handbook of International Relations, edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons. (London: Sage, 2002).

Wiersma, Jan Marinus. "Belarus—The Assessment of a Mission." Helsinki Monitor 13:2 (2002): 146-156.

Zellner, Wolfgang. "The OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities—His Work, Effectiveness, and Recommendations to Strengthen the HCNM as an Institution." In Europe's New Security Challenges, edited by Heinz Gärtner, Adrian Hyde-Price, and Erich Reiter. (Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).