Abstract
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which prior to 1 January 1995 was named the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),' is not user friendly. Its change in name, complex structure and nomenclature, use of obscure terminology, consensus decisionmaking process, and tendency to produce elaborate and bureaucratic procedures, most of which have never been used,2 can seem like a Kafkaesque nightmare. However, in the twenty years since the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act3 in 1975, the OSCE4 has been through a number of phases. At its best, it has been a means of keeping channels of communication open during the
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