Threats and Challenges to the OSCE Area – Walter Kemp and Leopold Schmertzing

Title: Threats and Challenges to the OSCE Area
Author: Walter Kemp and Leopold Schmertzing

Threats and Challenges to the OSCE Area [Kemp, Schmertzing]

Abstract

In regards to the next five to ten years, the erosion of the international rule of law and the laws of war, as well as the violent struggle over territorial integrity, self-determination and role of kin-states will probably be the most important threats for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Other challenges are increasing incentives for an international arms race coupled with the introduction of new modes of warfare, as well as the spill over of the brutal conflicts in the region of Middle East and North Africa, the rising aggressiveness of authoritarian systems, looming trade and energy confrontations and the failures of social integration and inequality.

Keywords

threats – OSCE – security – foresight – Maastricht strategy

Metadata

Title: Threats and Challenges to the OSCE Area
Author: Walter Kemp and Leopold Schmertzing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02502002
Language: English
Year: 2014
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 242–258
In: Security and Human Rights
E-ISSN: 1875-0230