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The OSCE Yearbook 2009, which was published in early 2010, contains a wealth of informed writing on the Organization, its activities, and the issues that concern it. It opens with four contributions written by leading European security experts: Adam Daniel Rotfeld asks whether Europe needs a “new security architecture”, Andrei Zagorski addresses President Medvedev’s proposal for a Treaty on European Security and the resulting “Corfu Process”, as do Pál Dunay and Graeme P. Herd, while Egon Bahr and Reinhard Mutz discuss the future of détente.
The participating States in focus this year are Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus; Dennis Sandole also examines the implications of US foreign policy in the post-Bush era for Europe. The OSCE conflict prevention and dispute settlement activities discussed include the prospects for conflict resolution in Moldova, the role of the Mission in Kosovo, military aspects of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the OSCE Centre in Astana at ten, and prospects for conflict settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh.