Publications

Our publications represent the heart of our work, alongside the verbal formats of research-based policy advice. Their form and content are therefore tailored first and foremost to application by politicians and administrators. All our publications reflect the findings and opinions of the researchers who write them. There is no "SWP opinion". Most of our publications are available in full on our website.

SWP Research Paper

SWP Research Papers are politically relevant analyses of fundamental questions and current challenges of international politics. They include response options and recommendations for political decision-makers. In most cases these are English translations of German-language studies (SWP-Studien) that have passed through a multi-stage internal...

SWP-Studien

SWP-Studien are generally the German original versions of the SWP Research Papers.

SWP Comments

Shorter policy papers on selected political developments that are or should be of interest to political decision-makers appear in the SWP Comments series. In most cases these are English translations of German-language papers (SWP-Aktuells), although some are original contributions published in English only. SWP Comments are internally reviewed by...

SWP Comments

Alexander Gusev

Energy Efficiency Policy in Russia: Scope for EU-Russia Cooperation

Paula Cristina Roque

Angola's Crucial Foreign Policy Drive

SWP Research Papers

Oliver Geden

Modifying the 2°C Target

Climate Policy Objectives in the Contested Terrain of Scientific Policy Advice, Political Preferences, and Rising Emissions

Wolfram Lacher

Fault Lines of the Revolution

Political Actors, Camps and Conflicts in the New Libya

Publications

SWP Research Paper

SWP-Studien

SWP Comments

SWP-Aktuell

SWP-Zeitschriftenschau

Books

SWP Comments

Energy Efficiency Policy in Russia: Scope for EU-Russia Cooperation

Angola's Crucial Foreign Policy Drive

SWP Research Papers

Modifying the 2°C Target

Fault Lines of the Revolution