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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Arie Bloed (ed.), The Challenges of Change: The Helsinki Summit of the CSCE and its Aftermath Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1994, xvii + 463 pp. This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of the fourth CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Helsinki from March to July 1992. Eight separate essays critically analyze the ambitious agenda, work groups, and results of this historic gathering. The volume also contains the text of the Helsinki Document, a selected bibliography, and a useful index. Taken together the essays provide a needed window to a terrain of international diplomacy and NGO activity that tends to be largely inaccessible to anyone outside the osCE. The authors, North American and European (predominantly Dutch) diplomats and scholars, have successfully forged a close-up view of the Helsinki process made possible by their years of experience in the OSCE and their participation at the Helsinki-n meeting. Throughout most of its history the OSCE has sought to introduce incremental change in a seemingly unchangeable East-West status quo. Helsinki-n, as Erica Schlager points out in her clearly written introduction, was faced with the challenge of catching up with the extraordinary and avalanche-like changes that accompanied the end of the East-West 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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Brill
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0925-0972
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1571-814X
DOI
10.1163/157181495X00577
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BOOK REVIEWS Arie Bloed (ed.), The Challenges of Change: The Helsinki Summit of the CSCE and its Aftermath Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1994, xvii + 463 pp. This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of the fourth CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Helsinki from March to July 1992. Eight separate essays critically analyze the ambitious agenda, work groups, and results of this historic gathering. The volume also contains the text of the Helsinki Document, a selected bibliography, and a useful index. Taken together the essays provide a needed window to a terrain of international diplomacy and NGO activity that tends to be largely inaccessible to anyone outside the osCE. The authors, North American and European (predominantly Dutch) diplomats and scholars, have successfully forged a close-up view of the Helsinki process made possible by their years of experience in the OSCE and their participation at the Helsinki-n meeting. Throughout most of its history the OSCE has sought to introduce incremental change in a seemingly unchangeable East-West status quo. Helsinki-n, as Erica Schlager points out in her clearly written introduction, was faced with the challenge of catching up with the extraordinary and avalanche-like changes that accompanied the end of the East-West

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

Published: Jan 1, 1995

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