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OSCE Review - European Security
STETE published a quarterly bulletin
OSCE Review - European Security until 2008. It was written in English and distributed to all Finnish
parliamentarians, to foreign policy and defence experts, research
institutes, NGOs and the media. Of its 1200 copies about 300 were sent
abroad.
The bulletin gave updates and analysis of OSCE affairs combined with perspectives on security related questions.OSCE
Review - European Security 4/2008 was the last issue of the bulletin.
The articles dealt with human dimension issues such as the 60th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, national
minorities and human trafficking. The other main topic was the OSCE
Civil SOciety Forum which STETE organised in December in Helsinki.
OSCE
Review - European Security 3/2008 covered issues such as the Georgian
war, the status of women in Afganistan and Baltic Sea.OSCE
Review - European Security 2/2008 concentrated on Ukraine from many
different perspectives: energy, border monitoring, migration, NATo etc.OSCE
Review - European Security 1/2008 was a theme issue of the OSCE Finnish
Chairmanship. The articles dealt with the priority issues of the
chairmanship.
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.
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