OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (1997)
OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (1997)

Author: Michael R. Hathaway

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999-05

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0788179330

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Report by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the OSCE and the Helsinki process. The OSCE is engaged in standard setting in fields including military security, economic and environmental cooperation, and human rights and humanitarian concerns. In addition, it undertakes a variety of preventive diplomacy initiatives designed to prevent, manage and resolve conflict within and among the participating States. In Nov. 1997, the participating States of the OSCE met in Warsaw, Poland for their biennial review of compliance with their human dimension commitments. This report summarizes that meeting.

The Legal Framework of the OSCE
The Legal Framework of the OSCE

Author: Mateja Steinbrück Platise

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1108615147

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security organisation, possesses most of the attributes traditionally ascribed to an international organisation, but lacks a constitutive treaty and an established international legal personality. Moreover, OSCE decisions are considered mere political commitments and thus not legally binding. As such, it seems to correspond to the general zeitgeist, in which new, less formal actors and forms of international cooperation gain prominence, while traditional actors and instruments of international law are in stagnation. However, an increasing number of voices - including the OSCE participating states - have been advocating for more formal and autonomous OSCE institutional structures, for international legal personality, or even for the adoption of a constitutive treaty. The book analyses why and how these demands have emerged, critically analyses the reform proposals and provides new arguments for revisiting the OSCE legal framework.

The Opening Up of International Organizations
The Opening Up of International Organizations

Author: Jonas Tallberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1107435773

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Once the exclusive preserve of member states, international organizations have become increasingly open in recent decades. Now virtually all international organizations at some level involve NGOs, business actors and scientific experts in policy-making. This book offers the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of this development. Combining statistical analysis and in-depth case studies, it maps and explains the openness of international organizations across issue areas, policy functions and world regions from 1950 to 2010. Addressing the question of where, how and why international organizations offer transnational actors access to global policy-making, this book has implications for critical issues in world politics. When do states share authority with private actors? What drives the design of international organizations? How do activists and businesses influence global politics? Is civil society involvement a solution to democratic deficits in global governance?