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Or is it? Doubt is warranted given the ongoing tensions over Ukraine, where...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">The Cold War is over! Or is it? Doubt is warranted given the ongoing tensions over Ukraine, where projecting from United Nations estimates, the death toll in the eastern part of the country is approaching 10,000 (AP 2016). Doubt is also warranted given the devastation in Syria, where old Cold War rivals are fighting, directly or in proxy, on opposite sides of a genocidal war involving the Asad dictatorship, a number of regional powers including Iran and Turkey, and numerous rebel and terror groups. This has resulted in a human death toll since 2011 of around half a million, with millions more injured or displaced (Reuters 2017). Doubts are also heightened by the steady admission of former Eastern Bloc countries into the US-dominated NATO military coalition in conjunction with 'bellicose Russian actions' in Georgia and Ukraine (Itzkowitz Shifrinson 2016, 9). 1 It is not surprising, therefore, that some prominent experts, such as Stephen F. Cohen, claim that the world in the twenty-first century has entered a 'new Cold War' (quoted in Smith 2015). 'This is the way the world ends', wrote T.S. Eliot in 1925, lamenting a dispirited post-World War I Europe. The old Cold War, as well, which had given us MAD or 'mutually assured destruction', ended 'not with a bang, but a whimper'. The end came largely peacefully, including the breaking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Thomas (2001) claims that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act (aka 'Helsinki Accords'), originally signed between 35 states from among the US-led West and the Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc, was instrumental in the USSR's demise and thus the end of the Cold War through the inadvertent acknowledgement of human rights norms by the Soviet hierarchy. This volume of Central Asian Survey takes stock of the legacies of the Helsinki Accords, more than 40 years after their signing. While touching on broad theoretical paradigms of regionalism, social constructivism, and democratization, the contributors analyse the complexity of the post-Cold War order, especially for the 'participating states' of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and focus on not only how these states have benefitted from their membership in that organization, but also how the OSCE has failed them and their publics in a number of critical ways. 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OSCE/ODIHR’s election observation missions and solidification of virtual democracy in post-communist Central Asia: the case of Tajikistan, 2000–2013</a></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span>Central Asian Survey</span></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span class="js-work-more-abstract-truncated">Since the late 1990s, the post-communist states of Central Asia, as 'participating States' of the...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Since the late 1990s, the post-communist states of Central Asia, as 'participating States' of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, have been regularly persuaded by the organization to invite its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor their national parliamentary and presidential elections. The OSCE/ODIHR's objectives have been to assist the Central Asian participating states in holding free and fair elections and aid in a presumed ongoing post-communist democratization process. We argue that contrary to OSCE's assumptions, repeated OSCE/ODIHR election observations of Central Asian states with histories of fraudulent elections (as demonstrated by the case study of Tajikistan during 2000-2013) have not contributed to the flourishing of democracy and political pluralism, but rather inadvertently aided in the solidification of authoritarianism and 'virtual democracy'a phenomenon we refer to as 'Helsinki's counterintuitive effect'. 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Or is it? Doubt is warranted given the ongoing tensions over Ukraine, where...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">The Cold War is over! Or is it? Doubt is warranted given the ongoing tensions over Ukraine, where projecting from United Nations estimates, the death toll in the eastern part of the country is approaching 10,000 (AP 2016). Doubt is also warranted given the devastation in Syria, where old Cold War rivals are fighting, directly or in proxy, on opposite sides of a genocidal war involving the Asad dictatorship, a number of regional powers including Iran and Turkey, and numerous rebel and terror groups. 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Thomas (2001) claims that the 1975 Helsinki Final Act (aka 'Helsinki Accords'), originally signed between 35 states from among the US-led West and the Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc, was instrumental in the USSR's demise and thus the end of the Cold War through the inadvertent acknowledgement of human rights norms by the Soviet hierarchy. This volume of Central Asian Survey takes stock of the legacies of the Helsinki Accords, more than 40 years after their signing. While touching on broad theoretical paradigms of regionalism, social constructivism, and democratization, the contributors analyse the complexity of the post-Cold War order, especially for the 'participating states' of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and focus on not only how these states have benefitted from their membership in that organization, but also how the OSCE has failed them and their publics in a number of critical ways. 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OSCE/ODIHR’s election observation missions and solidification of virtual democracy in post-communist Central Asia: the case of Tajikistan, 2000–2013</a></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span>Central Asian Survey</span></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span class="js-work-more-abstract-truncated">Since the late 1990s, the post-communist states of Central Asia, as 'participating States' of the...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Since the late 1990s, the post-communist states of Central Asia, as 'participating States' of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, have been regularly persuaded by the organization to invite its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor their national parliamentary and presidential elections. The OSCE/ODIHR's objectives have been to assist the Central Asian participating states in holding free and fair elections and aid in a presumed ongoing post-communist democratization process. We argue that contrary to OSCE's assumptions, repeated OSCE/ODIHR election observations of Central Asian states with histories of fraudulent elections (as demonstrated by the case study of Tajikistan during 2000-2013) have not contributed to the flourishing of democracy and political pluralism, but rather inadvertently aided in the solidification of authoritarianism and 'virtual democracy'a phenomenon we refer to as 'Helsinki's counterintuitive effect'. 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