Centre for Eastern Studies
The Centre for Eastern Studies is a Warsaw-based think tank that undertakes independent research on the political, economic and social situation in Central 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, 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 Wojciech Konończuk.
There are five research units and a few single specialists :
- Russian Department
- Department of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
- Department of Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia
- Central Europe Department
- Department for Germany and Northern Europe
Publications