Restoring European Security: From Managing Relations to Principled Cooperation

Whereas war states has eroded, and almost all the prin- granted, or even losing, the security and in Europe was “unthinkable” just a few In terms of relations between Russia ciples outlined in the 1975 Helsinki Final normative system that has been built up years ago, recently there has been heavy and the West, the central challenge is the Act and the Charter of Paris have been since the end of the. [...] Russia’s role in the war in eastern Ukraine ing the security and sovereignty of its The cross-tabulation of answers to the Having different values should not be an as well as cyber-attacks, interference in neighbours”, “embrace European values question as to whether shared values impediment to constructive dialogue and elections and the poisoning of opposition and play by the commonly agreed rules. [...] or both of the parties at the expense of This approach requires the various sides the credibility of any future agreement is international law, existing principles and to listen to one another, to be transpar- harmed if existing agreements fail to be In the current environment, it is unrealistic commitments and even the sovereignty ent and constructive, and to not seek to honoured (hence pacta sun. [...] In terms of age, the relative majority The campaign on Twitter, Facebook and the need for a more cooperative approach fice for Cooperation and Peace in Europe of respondents were between the ages YouTube was launched in April 2020 and to security and the inability of states to ef- (based in Vienna), and GLOBSEC (based of 21 and 40. [...] Since son: after launching CSI in Bratislava in chosen on the basis of their expertise on the questions required respondents to June 2019, experts of the initiative met in CSI was inspired by the priorities of Slova- issues of European security and cooper- write a short statement in response, the Vienna and Bratislava in August and No- kia’s Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2019, ation, and an effort w.