Security Dialogue or Talking Shop?

The Corfu Process under Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship

Author(s): Solveig Richter, Andrea Schmitz
Publisher(s): Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Date of publication: Feb 2010
Volume number: 2010
Issue number: 15
Pages: 4
Series: SWP Comments

Description: With the Corfu Process, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) wants to regain the key position it was believed to have lost - namely, its role as a forum for broad and inclusive dialogue on security issues from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Yet the challenges are daunting: while the Corfu Process does foster cooperation, it has not yet succeeded in increasing security in Europe. If the basic normative dissent between East and West is not confronted openly but instead just ignored, the risk is high that the process will deteriorate into a trivial discussion group, and that under Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship, it will even undermine the OSCE Acquis.

General note: © 2010 Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

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