ABSTRACT
Many observers of global affairs, notably members of the Bush administration, have claimed that, after the events of 9/11, we were clearly living in a different world. With particular regard to the OSCE, however, some signs of the “looming crisis” that befell the organization in the wake of those tragic attacks were implicit (and sometimes explicit) in some of the comments our interview questions elicited in the 1999 survey. In addition to those already mentioned in Chapter 8, we have, among others, the following comments by one NNA respondent:
I cannot see any convergence between the Russians and U.S., especially after Kosovo. The U.S. wants the security of Europe to be NATOoriented, while the Russians want it to be OSCE-oriented. Kosovo made it NATO-oriented. The ideal system would be to establish a buffer zone of neutral countries with defense capabilities between East and West. Always at the back of our minds is the thought that the Russians might “come back”!
