Reconceptualization of Security in the CSCE and OSCE

Abstract

It is significant to note that the concept of security used by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), since the mid-1990’s Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has from the inception of the process in the 1970’s been a broad one. The security concept has undergone transformations along with the political changes and realities in the CSCE/OSCE region, but these have been by far more subtle than in other organizations. One major change over time has been that the concept has been turned into an operational approach following the end of the Cold War.