Research Centres & Think Tanks

The website of NESCA provides news, papers and research on EU-Asia relations

The institute conducts research on EU-Asia/Pacific relations

This web site allows interested parties to share their views on security and defence issues. They provide opinions, dossiers and useful links related to security and defence.

Provides information on military issues and issues relating to WMD.

Think tank with focus on international economics.

Focus on CFSP and Global regionalism. See also publications section.

Focus on regional development and cohesion policy.

The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) of the University of Birmingham provides information and analysis related to governance, conflict and social development.

The website of the BICC offers publications and interactive materials on arms, peacebuilding and conflict.

The website (developed by teachers and students of the Network of European Union Centers) provides links, graphs, data and explanation on the EU institutions, EMU, CFSP, Enlargement and Environment

This think tank provides on its website news, commentary and publications on EU foreign relations.

Intergovernmental policy think tank of developing countries.

ISIS Europe is an independent research organisation that works to increase transparency, stimulate parliamentary engagement and broaden participation in EU and NATO policy-making. It publishes European Security Review, ISIS reports, European Security Contact Group meeting papers, Conference papers and other articles.

SIPRI conducts research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security. They provide publications, databases and a library.

This institute conducts research on political-military conflict. They provide publications (Adelphi papers, Armed Conflict database, the Military Balance, Russian Regional Perspectives Journal, etc.) and a library. In this library you can also find links to online journals.

Conducts research on political economic and developmental relationships between African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and Europe. The website provides interesting publications.

This think tank conducts research on a wide range of EU related topics. They have a newsletter and you can order thir publications on line.

This think tank conducts research on different EU topics. Look at the research topics (foreign policy, security and defence policy, enlargement, transatlantic relations, Russia, China, Middle East, etc.) in the left sidebar and the publications.

This think tank conducts research on China, democracy and development, energy, Europe and multilateralism, Iran, Middle East reform, the Iraq Commission and Latin America. They provide interesting publications.

This organisation conducts research on conflict prevention and resolution. It has an early warning function by publishing the CrisisWatch bulletin and it also provides reports by country and by region.

Research institute with focus on Southeastern Europe, EU and China, Youth and Europe, etc. Publishes books, working papers and articles.

Centre with economic focus.

Think tank with focus on EU enlargement and also on the implications for NATO.

European NGO confederation for relief and development. Look at the following sections: topics and publications.

University centre with focus on European Studies. For Publications: right sidebar: College Publications and then left sidebar: Papers EU International Relations and Diplomacy Department. For library: right sidebar: College Libraries and then Netguide (directory of internet links) in left sidebar.

The Network of Excellence CONNEX ("Connecting Excellence on European Governance") is funded by the EU. It conducts research on efficient and democratic multilevel governance in Europe. See section on publications.

Institute with focus on Europe and transatlantic relations. See publications section.

Centre with focus on European Public Management. See section on Publications and library.

Focus on European dimension of national economic policy issues. Publishes working papers.

Network of NGOs and think tanks to promote sustainable peacebuilding in the EU. See Publications.

Think tank with focus on EU integration and citizenship, Europe's political economy and Europe in the world. In the publications section you can find working papers, issue papers, policy briefs, commentaries, post-Summit analysis, issues from the 'Challenge Europe' series and news.

Focus on the Constitutional Treaty. (Only the homepage contains recent publications)

Institute with focus on Southeastern Europe. Publishes reports on Europeanisation, Kosovo, Bosnia, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro.

Focus on the EU, the Environment and Natural resources, Russia in the regional and global context and Transformation of the world order.

Focus on democracy, Justice and Home Affairs, EU Constitution, Future of EU Foreign Policy, etc.

See section on Europe for a wide range of European research topics and publications.

Click on EUI Publication and then on Cadmus: The EUI Publications Repository. Here you can search the database for Working Papers, Books, Contributions to books, Articles and Theses. This repository lists bibliographic references and, wherever possible, links to the full text of publications by EUI members. Focus on a wide variety of EU related subjects.

Focus on enlargement, ESDP and CFSP, institutional developments, etc. Publications in English: Integration, EU 25/27 Watch, IEP Policy Brief.

Focus on environmental policy.

Focus on European integration, European Union institutional developments, Common Foreign and Security Policy, the role of Europe in the community construction and international networking.

Focus on Europe as a global actor, neighbours and borders post-EU enlargement, Europe as a marketplace and Future Europe. A wide range of publications is available.

Focus on CFSP/ESDP, enlargement and the EU as a global actor. (not all publications are available in English)

Focus on democratic and effective institutions, enlargement, external action of the EU, and EMU. (supported by the European Commission)

Focus on governance.

Focus on EU in the world. See publications for EUFP working paper series.

Conducts research on a wide range of European Dimensions, including the foreign and security dimension. See Publications.

Focus on European issues in political science, law, trade and economics. Research is conducted on three broad themes: power and democracy, external dimensions of the EU and consequences of EU policy. Publishes reports, working papers, occasional papers and European Policy Analysis.

Focus US but also contains interesting sections and publications on EU. See regional studies: Europe and publications: reports. You can search by keyword (Europe).

Washington based research centre. See topics in left sidebar: European Union, Transatlantic relations, etc. Provides interesting interviews and papers.

This think tank conducts research on peace and security, human rights, democracy promotion, development, humanitarian aid and Europe's role on the international stage.

Research focus on the political and administrative context of the European Union, the borders of the EU, current internal and external EU policy developments, and the position of The Netherlands in the enlarging Union. Provides publications.

Provides resources on the democratic status of Russia and EU-Russia relations. Interesting sections are: publications, library and news and comments.

Focus on security and defence in the broad sense (includes terrorism, natural disasters, etc.).