The Legal Framework of the OSCE - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108483852 ISBN 13: 9781108483858

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security organisation, possesses most of the attributes traditionally ascribed to an international organisation, but lacks a constitutive treaty and an established international legal personality. Moreover, OSCE decisions are considered mere political commitments and thus not legally binding. As such, it seems to correspond to the general zeitgeist, in which new, less formal actors and forms of international cooperation gain prominence, while traditional actors and instruments of international law are in stagnation. However, an increasing number of voices - including the OSCE participating states - have been advocating for more formal and autonomous OSCE institutional structures, for international legal personality, or even for the adoption of a constitutive treaty. The book analyses why and how these demands have emerged, critically analyses the reform proposals and provides new arguments for revisiting the OSCE legal framework.

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Book Description

This book clarifies some core concepts of international institutional law, using the changing legal framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as an example. It is intended for legal and political scholars, as well as practitioners specialising in international law or international relations, including diplomats, members of government and international civil servants.

About the Author

Mateja Steinbrück Platise is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She is also Lecturer at the Universität Heidelberg and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Previously, she worked as Legal Officer at the European Court of Human Rights, Lecturer at the Université de Lille, Universität Hamburg and Univerza v Ljubljani, and as research assistant at the European Studies Centre of the University of Oxford. She has published on international institutional law, human rights law and international dispute settlement, and has been awarded Marie Curie Fellowship for her project on Responsibility of International Organisations for Human Rights Violations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1108483852
• ISBN 13: 9781108483858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Steinbrück Platise Mateja, Moser Carolyn, Peters Anne