Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas, in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly...

One focus of our international policy advice is on the topics of the 20 most important industrial and emerging countries (G20). We advise decision-makers through networks such as the think tank group T20. Results and activities of this commitment can...

... Tobias Heidland is a professor of economics at Kiel University and the Kiel Institute’s director of international development. Jasper Tjaden is a professor of applied social research and public policy at the University of Potsdam. ...

German and Greek voters oppose ‘pushbacks’ of irregular migrants and prefer a new approach to resettlement of Syrian refugees from Turkey to the EU. These are some of the findings of a major new study analyzing voters’ attitudes in Germany, Greece,...

On the 10th anniversary of war in Syria, the regional humanitarian crisis persists, warns Prof. Dr. Tobias Heidland, Director of the Research Center for International Development at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Reassessing the situation...

Matthias Lücke, coordinator of the MEDAM project and senior researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, says on the occasion of the informal video conference of the EU member states’ foreign affairs and home affairs ministers on migration...