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The OSCE as Sisyphus: Mediation, Peace Operations, Human Rights

Over the past decade, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has been returning to its origins as a Cold War–era conference—a forum where states and blocs can air their frictions and hostilities. If the OSCE’s participating States want it to remain an organization, not a conference, they must take action to secure its executive autonomy.

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By Philip Remler
Published on Apr 30, 2021

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Philip Remler

Nonresident Scholar, Russia and Eurasia Program

Philip Remler is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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