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This paper first charts how the OSCE has evolved since the end of the Cold War and overviews the work of its main bodies, including the Permanent Council and the High Commissioner on National Minorities. It then sheds light on the organization's long-term missions, functions and operations, which seem to show that the OSCE did have considerable success in dealing with ethno-political conflicts in the 1990s, but that its structures were (and are) too weak to manage major conflicts.