Switzerlands OSCE Chairmanship in 2014
Autor(en): Christian Nünlist
Journaltitel: Security and Human Rights
Publikationsjahr: 2014
Today, the OSCE is not the organization over which foreign ministers are racking their brains when they wake up early in the morning.' This was how Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore characterized the state of the OSCE at the end of Irelands Chairmanship in 2012. Indeed, the OSCE is still alive, but the organization has lost its appeal and is struggling for a raison dêtre. Why did Switzerland volunteer, as the very first OSCE participating State, to chair the organization in 2014 for the second time after 1996?