inRESPONSE Researcher Aitor Bonsoms presents paper at EISA – August 2024
inRESPONSE Researcher Aitor Bonsoms presents paper “Present and future of the OSCE: A reconfiguration of OSCE’s humanitarian action in the shadow of the contestation of the liberal order?” in the 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA), at the Lille Catholic University, France, on the 27-31 August 2024.
The abstract of the paper is the following:
Nowadays we face a new context originated as the result of the Ukraine War that has put an end to the OSCE’s field missions and projects in Ukraine that ran for almost 30 years (November 1994 – June 2022). This new context has redesigned the support to Ukraine (e.g. creation of the OSCE’s funding model for projects in Ukraine) and sparked Russia’s aim to leave the organization. This article explores the micro-politics of military and humanitarian negotiations and practices for establishing humanitarian pauses and corridors in Ukraine in the context of changing European security order. In general, there is a lack of academic research on humanitarian corridors and humanitarian pauses specifically. We aim to look at OSCE as a changing actor given this new context and how it can contribute to a future security order in the East of Europe. This article highlights that despite the current crisis, the organization has resilient mechanisms to the contestation of the liberal order.
