The OSCE and Security in a New World

Panel discussion

The crisis in Ukraine has revived old Cold War tensions, but is also showing us how radically our European security situation has moved on from the post-Cold War years of the 1990s.

We are witnessing the unfolding of a new mode of warfare, in which goals and actors are undeclared and shifting and public confusion is as much a weapon as armed combat.

But we have also seen, at the Maidan, the embodiment of a new vision of public participation that can be a beacon for similar aspirations for substantive democracy elsewhere in the world, as voiced for instance in the Occupy movement.

This panel discussion will ask about how these elements point the way forward, in particular for an inter-governmental organisation like the OSCE, which is dedicated to improving comprehensive security and stability throughout its region and has taken the lead in the international effort to respond to the crisis in Ukraine.

The panel will be chaired by Thomas J. Biersteker, Gasteyger Professor of International Security and Conflict Studies at the Graduate Institute.

Panel:

Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University

Peter Pomerantsev, British TV producer and Russia expert

Rasa Ostrauskaite, Deputy Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre

Ursula Froese, editor of the OSCE magazine Security Community, will introduce the debate.

There will be an opportunity for networking and further informal discussion immediately following the event. Register here for this event.