Preventive diplomacy as a tool for conflict solutions in Eastern Europe

Abstract

The modern world community is concerned about the search for humane, non-forceful methods for solving hybrid conflicts that characterize the system of international relations of the 21st century. That is why the concept of preventive diplomacy has become popular and in demand. The conflict in the East of Ukraine has shown that this concept has some flaws in terms of its implementation in practice. Using the historical method, the key means of implementing preventive diplomacy are revealed. The article analyzes examples of the use of preventive diplomacy methods for solving conflicts in Europe by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The authors used the method of comparative analysis to compare examples of implementation of the principles of preventive diplomacy by different international players. Attention is drawn to the fact that excessive caution of the OSCE and unwillingness to call Russia a participant in the conflict and even more, so an aggressor country led to skepticism about the organization itself in Ukraine.

Military administrations as an element of national security under international and Ukrainian legislation

“…While the use of preventive technologies has had positive results on the European continent, particularly in Macedonia, Albania, Latvia, and Estonia, etc., at the same time the conflict in the East of Ukraine has enabled preventive diplomacy to achieved only partial success, mainly because these conflicts do not have a large scale and numerous victims. The OSCE is often blamed with this regard, for it does not conflict with the Russian Federation, denies that Russia is a party of these conflicts and does not fully perform the functions assigned to it as an international security organization (Habro et al, 2021).…”