Panel Discussion: Ukraine/Crimea: Crisis as usual or new European divide?

The crisis in Crimea has developed into a more general conflict between Russia and the West. The future of Europe is uncertain to a degree not seen since the early 1990s. This raises a number of difficult questions, and even raising the right questions is difficult:

• What options exist for the further development of Ukrainian-Russian relations including the status of Crimea?
• How did we get from a co-operative security policy approach to the current situation characterized by deep tensions?
• Did we create bad precedents?
• Did we apply the OSCE principles and norms in the wrong manner?
• What opportunities were missed?
• Where were wrong turns taken?
• Is there still a possibility of returning to co-operative policies via the vision of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community?
• How could this be achieved?
• What can the OSCE contribute to the re-establishment of co-operative security relations?

These and many more questions will be discussed by a panel of members of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions.

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Programme

Welcome and introduction:

Thomas Greminger, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, Switzerland
Lamberto Zannier. Secretary General of the OSCE, Vienna

Discussion:

Kari Möttölä, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Philip N. Remler, former Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova
Oleksandr Tytarchuk, Chief Scientist, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Ukraine
Andrej Zagorski, Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Science-IMEMO Chair
Wolfgang Zellner. Centre for OSCE Research (CORE), co-ordinator of the OSCE Network, Germany

Concluding remarks:

Fred Tanner, Chairmanship Liaision Officer and Adviser to the Secretary General, OSCE

The event will take place at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, and will be live streamed on this page on 31 March 2014, 18:00 (CET).