Special Issue: The Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship of Kazakhstan (2009)

These articles were first published with Brill | Nijhoff publishers and featured on the Security and Human Rights Monitor (SHRM) website

Foreword/Editorial by Sabine Machl and Arie Bloed

Article Summaries

Journal Articles

• The OSCE Chairmanship: Captain or Figurehead?
  by Walter Kemp
• The Challenges and Opportunities Awaiting Kazakhstan in 2010
  by Herbert Salber
• Observations on an OSCE Chairmanship: Intentions, Challenges and Outcomes
  by Nina Suomalainen
• Kazakhstan’s Chairmanship: Challenges and Opportunities from the Moscow Perspective
  by Andrej Zagorski
• Kazakhstan’s Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship: Election Related Issues
  by Eltje Aderhold
• Human Rights: An International Context And Internal Developments. A View From Kazakhstan
  by Yevgeniy Zhovtis
• The European Union, Kazakhstan and the 2010 OSCE Chairmanship
  by Neil J. Melvin
• Respecting Human Rights in Central Asia: Will This Stabilize or Destabilize The Region?
  by Oskar Lehner
• Criminal Justice Reform in Kazakhstan and OSCE Commitments
  by Daniyar Kanafin
• Kazakhstan’s Chairmanship of the OSCE: Challenges and Opportunities in The Human Dimension
  by Jeff Goldstein
• NATO and Central Asia: Security, Interests And Values in a Strategic Region
  by Alexander Vinnikov
• Kazakhstan’s Military Reform and OSCE Chairmanship: Regional Implications
  by Erika Marat
• Afghanistan: The Right Mission on the Wrong Footing
  by Daan Everts
• Regulating Religion in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Some Remarks on Religious Association Law and ‘Official’ Islamic Institutions in Tajikistan
  by Tim Epkenhans

Chronicle

• New OSCE Chairman-In-Office Faces Daunting Task
  by Arie Bloed