ABSTRACT
Although several international organizations (lOs) participated actively in Eastern Europe's ethnic politics during the past decade, research on their role tends to focus on a single institution and the particular strategy it applied. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been praised for easing ethnic tensions, but studies rarely focus on its concrete policy effects or they ignore
Many panel and seminar participants have offered useful comments on this work, but my thanks goes in particular to Michael Ziirn, Alexandra Gheciu, Frank Schimmelfennig, Jeff Checkel, Robert Keohane, Steven Wilkinson, Robert Putnam, Milada Vachudova, and the editors and anonymous reviewers of International Organization. I also thank Princeton University Press for allowing me to use material from my book Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives. The usual caveats apply. This research was funded by a grant from the Danish Research Academy (former Forskerakaderniet), and by travel support from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
