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International: OSCE Vienna – Soft Power At Work

By Simon Ballam
A member of the Ukrainian military takes a sample of the toxic rocket fuel component mélange. The OSCE brokered an agreement between Russian and Ukrainian military commanders to remove the 16,000 tonnes rotting in the Ukrainian countryside.
Photos: ©OSCE
Born in the chilliest era of the Cold War, Vienna’s OSCE fosters common-sense cooperation between people of good will “What we do is soft power,” said Natacha Rajakovic, spokeswoman for the Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE. Not easy to reconcile with trigger-happy hotspots like Ukraine and Kosovo that put them in […]
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Simon Ballam
English, studied in NY and worked in London, Düsseldorf, NY, Fankfurt, Prague and Vienna. This covered stints in market research and the film industry, international advertising coordination and strategic planning. Currently business school lecturer and journalist.
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