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This paper presents the outcomes of the October 2014 OSCE Focus Conference held in Geneva on the Ukraine crisis that started in 2013, the conflict in the East of the country that began in 2014 and the implications of these issues for European security. More specifically, it includes articles on 1) the role of international organizations in managing the Ukraine crisis; 2) scenarios on how the Ukraine crisis might develop from a human rights perspective; 3) key questions that would have to be addressed in mediation processes aimed at resolving the Ukraine conflict; 4) the history of the security order in Europe, why it has collapsed and the role the OSCE can play in building a new one; and 5) the links between trade and security, the role these links have played in security in the OSCE region, and the place of trade policy in the Ukraine conflict.