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A Historical Overview of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe; from Past to Present

Summary/Abstract: The Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), emerging as a dialog and cooperation process during the Cold War, helped to end it by facilitating the endorsement of some important international documents such as Helsinki Final Act, Paris Chart, and The Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement (CFE). The OSCE, which was preoccupied with the democratization of Eastern Europe and the crisis management areas in the 1990’s has become politically marginalized due to the enlargements of NATO and EU. Having failed to make OSCE a core element of European security architecture, Russia has initiated a new and different European security structure which aimed at decreasing NATO and USA’s role in Europe. In this article, the historical role of OSCE, as well as its position in European security architecture will be analyzed in the context of Global Powers’ expectations.

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