The OSCE at 50: Can It Survive the Russian War in Ukraine?

On November 6, the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studes (SAIS) hosted a lecture by Dr. P. Terrence Hopmann on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) 50th anniversary.

Biography

Professor P. Terrence Hopmann, FPI Senior Fellow and former director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program, has conducted research on the OSCE beginning with interviews with the negotiators of the Helsinki Final Act in 1974. He has recently returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in Vienna, location of the OSCE headquarters. For almost 50 years he has done research based on interviews in Vienna and in many of its "missions" in conflict zones in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Central Asia, including Russia and Ukraine. His talk focuses on how the OSCE and its participating states are trying to manage the war between two of its biggest participants, which threatens the very existence of this important international institution.