Center for Eastern Studies

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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 14.5 ″  N , 21 ° 1 ′ 23.1 ″  E

Headquarters of the institution in Warsaw

The Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich (OSW, German  Center for Eastern Studies , English Center for Eastern Studies ) is a scientific institution government and independent think tank based in Warsaw .

Fields of work

The think tank creates analyzes, expert opinions and forecasts on the political, economic and social situation in Eastern Europe, Central Europe, on the Bar, in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. Particular focus areas of the OSW are the policy of the European Union towards its eastern neighbors ( European Neighborhood Policy , Eastern Partnership ), the challenges of energy security in Europe, and the socio-political and economic developments in Poland's neighboring countries. In the European Union, the OSW is one of the largest think tanks that mainly deal with the post-Soviet successor states of the former Eastern Bloc . The research area of ​​the center was expanded to include Central Europe ( Visegrád Group ) and the Balkans in 1998 , Germany in 2005 and Turkey in 2012 and Northern Europe with the Baltic States. The OSW employs around 50 analysts in the five departments Russia , Ukraine / Belarus / Moldova , Turkey / Caucasus / Central Asia , Central Europe and Germany / Northern Europe as well as specialists in special subject areas (energy policy, security and defense).

history

The think tank was founded in 1990 under the impression of the dissolution of the Soviet Union under the Mazowiecki cabinet on the initiative of the historian and then head of the library of the Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw Marek Karp (1952-2004). It had the task of using Open Source Intelligence to collect missing knowledge about the emerging successor states of the Soviet Union in order to promote Polish exports there. As a public research institution, the OSW is financed by the Polish state, initially by the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, later by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and finally in the Tusk cabinet by the Prime Minister's State Chancellery.

In the mid-1990s, Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich developed from an information broker to an analysis center. In 2012, the OSW became a state-supervised legal entity whose activities are regulated by the law of July 15, 2011. According to this, the main task of the OSW is to provide the Polish authorities with knowledge (analyzes, prognoses, expert opinions) on important events and developments in Poland's international environment. In addition to the decision-making aids for political actors, which are not published, the OSD also wants to promote public debates.

In 2013, the OSW was subsidized with 8.6 million zloty, in 2014 with 9.1 million zloty (approx. 2.18 million euros). The analyzes and publications produced by the OSW contribute to shaping Poland's foreign policy .

In 1991, a study by the OSW recommended recognizing Ukraine's independence, which Poland was the first to do.

After a car accident involving a Belarusian truck, the driver of which had forged papers, the founder mysteriously died of a blood clot while he was recovering. Shortly before, secret service employees had visited him. Shortly before his death, Karp was about to forward information about Robert Gmyrek, director of the oil company PKN Orlen , to Zbigniew Wassermann , deputy head of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into PKN Orlen.

Karp has been director of the institute since it was founded in 1990. He was the recipient of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas and the Aleksander Gieysztor Prize (2000). Karp was posthumously awarded the Polonia Restituta Order and, together with the OSW, the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize from the daily Rzeczpospolita . In 2006 the institute was given the nickname Marek Karp in honor of its founder, who had died two years earlier . From 2004 to 2007 the Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich was headed by the later Polish Interior Minister Jacek Cichocki .

Publications

Most of the numerous OSW publications are freely accessible on the website, in both Polish and English.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ustawa z dnia 15 lipca 2011 r. o Ośrodku Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
  2. ↑ Rozporządzenie Prezesa Rady Ministrów z dnia 12 października 2011 r. w sprawie nadania statutu Ośrodkowi Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
  3. ↑ Ustawa z dnia 15 lipca 2011 r. o Ośrodku Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia . In: Dz.U. 2011 no 173 poz. 1029 . sejm.gov.pl. January 1, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Sprawozdanie z wykonania budżetu państwa za okres od 1 stycznia do 31 grudnia 2013 r. (Print nr 2445). Tom I . sejm.gov.pl. P. 2/19. May 30, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Ustawa budżetowa na rok 2014 z dnia 24 stycznia 2014 r. . In: Dz. U. poz. 162 . isap.sejm.gov.pl. P. 41. February 3, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  6. ^ Agaton Kozinski: Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich wykuwa elitę polskiej administracji. Jego ludzie przejmują władz , Polska Times, March 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Tatiana Serwetnyk, Wojciech Lorenz: Czy politycy zaczną doceniać ekspertów , Rzeczpospolita , January 26, 2008