Center for Security Studies

Multilateralism in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for the OSCE

Multilateralism in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for the OSCE

Author(s): Thomas Greminger, Fabian Grass, Anna Hess Sargsyan, David Lanz, Benno Zogg
Editor(s): Simon J. A. Mason, Lisa Watanabe
Series: CSS Studies
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

This CSS Study examines the challenges that the broad context of the global crisis of multilateralism and increased geopolitical polarization poses for the OSCE and how it has responded to them. It also highlights the opportunities that have emerged. First-hand insights into the challenges faced by Swiss Ambassador Thomas Greminger, who acted as the OSCE Secretary General from 2017–2020, and how he sought to navigate the organization through stormy waters form the heart of this study, flanked by analyses of the OSCE’s responses “on the ground” to the conflicts in Ukraine and Transnistria. It also looks toward the OSCE’s possible future development.

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