OSCE…
Summits are no-necktie, Bill-and-Boris affairs now, but last week’s gathering of fifty-four nations in Istanbul brought to mind an earlier era, when frock-coated gentlemen fretted over the Eastern Question and the ebbing of the Ottoman Empire. Today post-Soviet Russia is the Sick Man of Europe, and of Central Asia and the Caspian as well. General Kvashnin is right to be concerned. Issues that confronted the Great Powers at the Concert of Europe, the Congress of Berlin and the Conference of Paris are back again:
