TY - JOUR IS - 4 N2 - This article analyses the first Bush administration's policy toward the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), finding that as with Soviet-American relations and US policy toward Eastern Europe, the administration diverged from the foreign policy of its predecessor. Whereas previously the CSCE had been a forum to encourage progress on human rights, promote reform in Eastern Europe, and encourage cooperation with the Soviet Union, under Bush it became a tool to manage the transformation of Europe and preserve the Atlantic alliance. This new approach was guided by uncertainty about the CSCE's usefulness as a multilateral forum, scepticism about Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, and a preference for stability. VL - 13 Y1 - 2013/01/31/ A1 - Snyder, SB ID - discovery1405706 SN - 1468-2745 N1 - © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. JF - Cold War History EP - 22 AV - public UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2012.758104 SP - 1 TI - Beyond containment? The first Bush administration's sceptical approach to the CSCE ER -