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Point of View | | Jakub Jakóbowski

The drifting of Chinas reforms Economic policy during Xi Jinpings first term

The slackening pace of important economic reforms, as well as the stimulus measures taken in response to the 2008 crisis to boost investments, have all led to a huge build-up of debt and created imbalances in the Chinese economy, including…
Point of View | | Marek Menkiszak

Russias best enemy Russian policy towards the United States in Putins era

Relations between Russia and the United States are characterised by an asymmetry against Russia, whose expectations vis-à-vis the US remain unmet. The dynamics of Russia’s policy towards the US in the last sixteen years has been one of…
OSW Report | | Artur Ciechanowicz

Islamic State in Germany Germans in Islamic State Germanys homegrown jihadists

Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, around 810 individuals from Germany have travelled to the Middle East to support Islamic terror groups.
OSW Report | | Marek Menkiszak, Jan Strzelecki, Piotr Żochowski, Andrzej Wilk, Maria Domańska, Iwona Wiśniewska

Kaliningrad Oblast 2016 The society economy and army

Moscow has been developing a new model of governance for Kaliningrad Oblast in 2016. The changes in the regional government (the governance of the oblast was entrusted to people sent from Moscow and had no links with the region) were part…
Point of View | | Wojciech Górecki

The peninsula as an island Crimea in its third year since annexation

Regardless of the transport and social problems, the vast majority of the population have remained on the peninsula adapting to the new situation.
Point of View | | Marcin Kaczmarski

Silk globalisation Chinas vision of international order

The New Silk Road is China’s main foreign policy project, devised under Xi Jinping. Beijng is striving to build up durable influence in the states in its neighbourhood. At the same time, China’s view of the international order is…
Point of View | | Wojciech Konończuk

Keystone of the system Old and new oligarchs in Ukraine

More than two years after the Maidan revolution, it is fully justified to say that the oligarchic system remains a key mechanism in Ukraine’s political and economic life. The oligarchs have been able to hold on to their influence…
OSW Report | | Rafał Bajczuk

Dependence management The background of the German gas policy

Natural gas, after crude oil, is the most important energy carrier in the German economy. Over the past twenty years, natural gas has been the only conventional energy carrier to have increased its share in the German energy basket.
Point of View | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Perestroika – the Nazarbayev way Crisis and reforms in Kazakhstan

Governed by an authoritarian regime Kazakhstan has been making efforts to modernise and has been searching for new development models free of Soviet legacy.
OSW Report | | Konrad Popławski

The role of Central Europe in the German economy The political consequences

The latest results from the Visegrád Group states show them to be Germany’s most important trading partner.