The research team consisted of employees of the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University, researchers of the Polish Research Center of the Jagiellonian University and members of the Students' Research Association of International Relations at the Jagiellonian University has published:
- report entitled “Assessment of Poland's Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2022”,
- decision game entitled "From Vancouver to Vladivostok - a laboratory of multilateral diplomacy".
These are the effects of the project entitled "Poland's regional position in times of global tensions and rivalry - challenges for Euro-Atlantic security" that has finished in mid-December 2022.
The purpose of the report edited by Michał Dulak is to assess Poland's activities during the annual OSCE chairmanship between January and December 2022. Due to the lack of scientific and expert discussions summarizing the Polish OSCE chairmanship, the authors of the report also want to provide a detailed description of the events organized by Poland in 2022.
In the first chapter entitled " The relevance of the OSCE to Euro-Atlantic security in the 21st century”, Agnieszka Nitszke answers the questions about the institutional evolution of the OSCE since 1995, and whether institutional and organizational changes have improved the functioning of the OSCE in its various dimensions - political and military, human and economic.
The second chapter is devoted to the role of the OSCE in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which has been ongoing since 2014. Olesia Tkachuk in the text entitled "Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict after 2014" presents an analysis of the initiatives taken by the OSCE to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
The third chapter is entirely devoted to the summary of the Polish OSCE Chairmanship in 2022. In the first sub-chapter of the third part of the report, Michał Dulak presents the methodology for the evaluation of the Poland’s Chairmanship. The second sub-chapter, written by Michał Dulak and Yevhenii Portnyi contains an analysis of the historical and institutional context of the Polish presidency. In the third sub-chapter, Wiktor Kęsy and Yevhenii Portnyi discuss the program of the Poland’s OSCE Chairmanship following the assessment criteria adopted in the report. In the last chapter of Yevhenii Portnyi and Wiktor Kęsy, they present an extensive overview of the activities carried out by the Poland’s diplomacy between January and December 2022, and also provide an assessment of Chairmanship achievements, taking into account the context of the war in Ukraine.
The study conducted for the purpose of this part of the report uses the analysis of the secondary data, as well as data obtained from interviews with diplomats and employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the OSCE responsible for the implementation of the activities of the Poland’s OSCE Chairmanship in three dimensions: political and military, human and economic and environmental.
Report can be downloaded from here (English version)
Decision game "From Vancouver to Vladivostok - a laboratory of multilateral diplomacy" was developed by Agnieszka Nitszke in cooperation with Michał Dulak. The game is aimed at high school students and students interested in international relations and diplomacy. The participants of the game have the opportunity to impersonate the representatives of stakeholders (e.g. foreign ministers, NGOs, experts) interested in the reform of the OSCE. The aim of the game is to negotiate solutions to improve the functioning of the OSCE in the 21st century.
You can download the game here (English version)
The project “Poland's regional position in times of global tensions and rivalry: challenges for Euro-Atlantic security" was financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the "Public Diplomacy 2022" competition
Projekt „Regionalna pozycja Polski w czasach globalnych napięć i rywalizacji – wyzwania dla bezpieczeństwa euroatlantyckiego” został sfinansowany ze środków Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych RP w konkursie „Dyplomacja publiczna 2022”