CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Tretiak, Karyna |
|---|---|
| Title | Assessing OSCE's Conflict Management in Ukraine Through the Lens of the Conflict Cycle |
| Summary | The full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine in February 2022 came as a major upheaval for Ukraine, the world, and the OSCE, which was the main international actor on the ground in the country since the outbreak of the war in the east of Ukraine in 2014. Just in 2021, OSCE argued it was successful in containing the escalation. However, the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022 raises serious questions about OSCE and its conflict management abilities and performance. This thesis attempts to assess the OSCE’s work in Ukraine. Previous studies mainly concentrated on the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine itself, with little attention to OSCE’s work as a third-party conflict management actor, which is not limited to the Mission. The conflict cycle concept is used to comprehensively assess OSCE’s effectiveness through all the stages and define recurring factors. Using a longitudinal case study with process tracing and pattern matching, I found out that the main factors affecting the OSCE’s performance are the consensus principle, insufficient mechanisms, and the political will of states. Political will is the most significant of the three, influencing the organization’s internal processes and external activities. |
| Supervisor | Erin K. Jenne |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/tretiak_karyna.pdf |
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