The Centre for Eastern Studies ( pl, Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich, OSW) is a
Warsaw-based
think tank that undertakes independent research on the political, economic and social situation in
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
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and
Eastern Europe,
Balkans,
Caucasus and
Central Asia.
The centre was founded in 1990 and is fully financed from the
Polish state budget. In 2006 the centre was named in honour of its founder .
The OSW is the largest of the
European Union’s think tanks to focus its research on the part of Europe which until 1989 had been separated from the West by the Iron Curtain.
The centre is particularly active in debates concerning the
European Union's policy towards its Eastern neighbours (
European Neighbourhood Policy
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a foreign relations instrument of the European Union (EU) which seeks to tie those countries to the east and south of the European territory of the EU to the Union. These countries, primarily developing ...
,
Eastern Partnership), challenges to
energy security in Europe, as well as the political, social and economic transformation of countries neighbouring
Poland.
Staff and work groups
The OSW employs over 50
research fellows.
The centre's director is
Adam Eberhardt.
There are five research units and a few single specialists (in energy policy and military aspects of international security):
*
Russian Department
* Department of
Ukraine,
Belarus and
Moldova
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* Department of
Turkey, the
Caucasus and
Central Asia
*
Central Europe
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Department
* Department for
Germany and
Northern Europe
Publications
Most of the OSW publications are available free of charge at the centre's web site, both in Polish and English (including "Policy Briefs", "OSW Studies" and "OSW Report").
External links
Centre for Eastern Studies official web site
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1990 establishments in Poland
Think tanks established in 1990
Think tanks based in Poland
Foreign policy and strategy think tanks
Political and economic think tanks based in the European Union