OSCE Review - European Security

STETE publishes currently a quarterly bulletin OSCE Review - European Security in English, distributed to all Finnish parliamentarians, to foreign policy and defence experts, research institutes, NGOs and the media. Of its 1200 copies about 300 are sent abroad.

The bulletin aims to give updates and analysis of OSCE affairs combined with perspectives on security related questions.

The price is 30 EUR / 45 USD including mail and you can subscribe to the bulletin from STETE's office. 

European Security 3/2007 covers issues such as climate change, environment and security. Articles in the issue deal with for example Darfur as the first possible climate change war, sustainable development, Baltic Sea civil protection, and the OSCE's stronger stress on the link between environment and security. Contributors to this issue of the bulletin include experts such as Pekka Haavisto, Tarja Cronberg and Tapani Vaahtoranta.

The 2/2007 issue of European Security - OSCE Review tackles topics about conflicts in Africa. With writers such as Lucy Laitinen and Christian Jokinen, the issue deals with various viewpoints to security politics in this continent.

The European Security 1/2007 issue deals with e.g. Northern dimension, cluster munitions, security and cooperation in the European south and state´s differences in OSCE progress. Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja handles coherence of the EU common foreign and security policy in his editorial.

The last 2006 issue of the European Security - bulletin 4/2006 came out in early December. It covers issues such as EU efforts towards Kosovo settlement, Kazakhstani endeavours to get the OSCE chair, Eva Biaudet's plans to tackle human trafficking as the new OSCE Special Representative, Russia's exacerbated energy relations, the future of Finnish-Russian cross-border cooperation, the struggling first steps of the UN Human Rights Commission, suggested frameworks for migration governance, the need to improve the quality of EU missions as well as the fieldwork of NATO in Afghanistan and the Red Cross. 

The European Security 3/2006 issue deals with e.g. the Finnish EU Presidency security policy priorities, including EU military and civilian crisis management and Finland's views on the ESDP, women's representation in Serbia and Montenegro, trafficking as well as things happening in Russia and Georgia.