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Alongside the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, the International Criminal Court, and many other institutions that have lost their coherence and purpose in today’s interregnum, the OSCE will continue to exist through institutional inertia

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The Helsinki Final Act turns 50: the rise — and fall — of the OSCE

Half a century ago, at the end of July 1975, the leaders of 33 European states, along with those of the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, gathered in Helsinki.

Their task was to conclude the Confer...

Alongside the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, the International Criminal Court, and many other institutions that have lost their coherence and purpose in today’s interregnum, the OSCE will continue to exist through institutional inertia

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Anton Shekhovtsov is director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity in Vienna, visiting professor at the Central European University, and author of three books: New Radical Rightwing Parties in European Democracies (2011), Russia and the Western Far-Right: Tango Noir (2017), and Russian Political Warfare (2023).

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