Berlin’s Strategic Moment – The OSCE Chairmanship to Test its Emergent Leadership – Constanze Stelzenmüller

Title: Berlin’s Strategic Moment – The OSCE Chairmanship to Test its Emergent Leadership
Author: Constanze Stelzenmüller

Berlin’s Strategic Moment – The OSCE Chairmanship to Test its Emergent Leadership [Stelzenmüller]

Abstract

As Germany prepares to take on the chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016 in the midst of Europe’s worst security crisis in a generation, crisis management is in the foreground—with a focus on containing risk and preventing escalation through diplomacy and sanctions against Russia. Yet Berlin is also fundamentally re-shaping its foreign and security policy across the board. Ultimately, Germany’s goal must be to restore a peaceful European security order: not on the terms of Vladimir Putin, but on the basis of the principles enshrined in the OSCE.

Keywords

German foreign policy – OSCE Chair – Ukraine crisis – European leadership – German-Russian relations

Metadata

Title: Berlin’s Strategic Moment – The OSCE Chairmanship to Test its Emergent Leadership
Author: Constanze Stelzenmüller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02502009
Language: English
Year: 2014
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 190–197
In: Security and Human Rights
E-ISSN: 1875-0230