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| Named after | Marek Karp |
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Key people | Wojciech Konończuk (director) |
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| Website | https://www.osw.waw.pl |
TheCentre for Eastern Studies (Polish:Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich, OSW) is aWarsaw-basedthink tank that undertakes independent research on the political, economic and social situation inCentral andEastern Europe,Balkans,Caucasus andCentral Asia.
The centre was founded in 1990 and is fully financed from thePolishstate budget. In 2006 the centre was named in honour of its founderMarek Karp [pl].
The OSW is the largest of theEuropean 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.[citation needed]
The centre is particularly active in debates concerning theEuropean Union's policy towards its Eastern neighbours (European Neighbourhood Policy,Eastern Partnership), challenges toenergy security in Europe, as well as the political, social and economic transformation of countries neighbouringPoland.
The OSW employs over 50research fellows.
The centre's director isWojciech Konończuk.
There are five research units and a few single specialists (in energy policy and military aspects of international security):
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").
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