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Confidence-building measures in Eurasian conflicts : new roles for the OSCE’s economic and environmental dimension in easing East-West tensions

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2019
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Fawn, Rick
Lutterjohann, Nina
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Western-Russian relations are inarguably at their worst of the post-Cold War era. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) remains a key international forum for multilateral engagement. Part of the OSCE’s uniqueness is its formation around three dimensions of security, which constitute its comprehensive security. The Economic and Environmental (EED) is the most overlooked yet, as this paper demonstrates, also possesses substantial capacity for easing some tensions. Through, first, an analysis of the place of EED in the OSCE, and thus between the West and Russia, the article establishes potentialities for cooperation. Second, it identifies lack of support, most notably among Western governments, rather than post-Soviet, and the place of EED activities in post-Soviet states. Third, the article pinpoints unexpected but very real forms of cooperation in the EED in the protracted post-Soviet conflicts of Transnistria-Moldova and Abkhazia-Georgia, which can establish trust between parties with the potential to expand confidence-building further. The article concludes by calling for further use of the EED, in a time when it remains underestimated but of unexpected – and essential – value for confidence-building.
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Fawn , R & Lutterjohann , N 2019 , ' Confidence-building measures in Eurasian conflicts : new roles for the OSCE’s economic and environmental dimension in easing East-West tensions ' , Global Society , vol. 33 , no. 2 , CGSJ-2018-0038 , pp. 262-284 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2019.1566214
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Global Society
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2019.1566214
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1360-0826
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 University of Kent. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2019.1566214
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Funding was provided by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Vienna.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20262

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