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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEW The OSCE in crisis (Chaillot Paper No. 88, April 2006), Pál Dunay, published by the Institute for Security Studies in Paris, 97 pp. Arie Bloed 1 The Hungarian scholar Pál Dunay from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) has published quite an interesting booklet with the undiplomatic title ‘The OSCE in crisis’. This leaves no doubts as to the author’s perception of the present state of affairs of the organization, and one can only agree with him, even though some ‘diplomats’ regularly try to ignore this assessment by stressing the many useful activities undertaken by the OSCE . In this booklet format Dunay gives a fair analysis of the OSCE from a political and, in particular, an EU perspective. He starts with an overview of the radically changed European security landscape and how this has affected the OSCE . A brief chapter on the history and background of the OSCE is followed by a lengthier chapter about the main dimensions in which the organization is active. After an interesting analysis of the interests of the three key players within the OSCE — the USA , the Russian Federation and the EU — the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0925-0972
eISSN
1571-814X
DOI
10.1163/157181406778917305
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BOOK REVIEW The OSCE in crisis (Chaillot Paper No. 88, April 2006), Pál Dunay, published by the Institute for Security Studies in Paris, 97 pp. Arie Bloed 1 The Hungarian scholar Pál Dunay from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) has published quite an interesting booklet with the undiplomatic title ‘The OSCE in crisis’. This leaves no doubts as to the author’s perception of the present state of affairs of the organization, and one can only agree with him, even though some ‘diplomats’ regularly try to ignore this assessment by stressing the many useful activities undertaken by the OSCE . In this booklet format Dunay gives a fair analysis of the OSCE from a political and, in particular, an EU perspective. He starts with an overview of the radically changed European security landscape and how this has affected the OSCE . A brief chapter on the history and background of the OSCE is followed by a lengthier chapter about the main dimensions in which the organization is active. After an interesting analysis of the interests of the three key players within the OSCE — the USA , the Russian Federation and the EU — the

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Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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