SWP Research Divisions

EU Integration

The Research Division deals with the most important political challenges facing the EU and analyses the strategies, negotiations and decision-making processes of the EU's bodies and member states.

The Research Division analyses the central fields in the EU's external relations like CFSP, CSDP, enlargement, trade policy and the respective actors and institutions that shape the EU’s foreign policy.

International Security

The analysis of security policy covers a wide range of issues from European and transatlantic security relations to the development of weapon technologies. Additional focus areas include disarmament and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The Americas

The Research Division analyses domestic, economic and foreign policy developments in the United States and Latin America as well as the relations between Germany/Europe and the countries of the Americas.

Eastern Europe, Eurasia

The Research Division deals with the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the South Caucasus and the Central Asian countries. It provides analysis of political structures, social processes, foreign and security policy developments, and the incorporation of these states into European and Euro-Atlantic...

Middle East and Africa

The Research Division's work is focused on social and political transformation, domestic and regional conflicts, as well as questions relating to external and security policies in Africa and the Middle East.

Asia

The Research Division concentrates on interrelationships between domestic transformation processes, foreign and security policy developments in southern and Pacific Asia, and their global ramifications.

Global Issues

Globalisation and transnationalisation lead not only to new opportunities for cooperation, but also to new risks. The Research Division analyses challenges facing state and non-state actors, particularly in the areas of economics, finance, climate, resources, international law, demographics and...

SWP in Brussels

A direct line to and from Europe: SWP's Brussels Office presents analytical papers and gives policy advice to decision makers in EU and NATO. more

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