¿Puede la OSCE (todavía) contribuir a la seguridad europea?

In: Revista de Estudios de Seguridad Internacional: RESI, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 165-184

Abstract

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (later transformed into the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) was born with the aim of constituting a forum for dialogue between international actors with radically different political options and conceptions of security. After the end of the Cold War, the Organization's discourse was reoriented towards the promotion of a robust demiocratic ideal. However, the facts showed the limits of the initial optimism. The effective practice of the Organization continued to adhere to a traditional concept of security as interstate security, with some attention to the human rights dimension, but also with a high tolerance for non-democratic regimes. This variable geometry between the components of the concept of security is related to the very nature of the Organization: it was born as a way of guaranteeing a modus vivendi between States with conflicting interests and ideologies and maintains this character to a large extent, although nowadays the opposition is not between two different economic models but between States with varying degrees of democratization.