TY - BOOK ID - 85479219 TI - The Legal Framework of the OSCE AU - Steinbrück Platise, Mateja AU - Moser, Carolyn AU - Peters, Anne PY - 2019 SN - 1108594026 1108615147 1108588573 1108483852 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - National security KW - Security, International. KW - Collective security KW - International security KW - International relations KW - Disarmament KW - International organization KW - Peace KW - National security policy KW - NSP (National security policy) KW - Security policy, National KW - Economic policy KW - Military policy KW - Law and legislation KW - Government policy KW - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. KW - Organization for security and co-operation in Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85479219 AB - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security organisation, possesses most of the attributes traditionally ascribed to an international organisation, but lacks a constitutive treaty and an established international legal personality. Moreover, OSCE decisions are considered mere political commitments and thus not legally binding. As such, it seems to correspond to the general zeitgeist, in which new, less formal actors and forms of international cooperation gain prominence, while traditional actors and instruments of international law are in stagnation. However, an increasing number of voices - including the OSCE participating states - have been advocating for more formal and autonomous OSCE institutional structures, for international legal personality, or even for the adoption of a constitutive treaty. The book analyses why and how these demands have emerged, critically analyses the reform proposals and provides new arguments for revisiting the OSCE legal framework. ER -