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Public Policy Centres 2007/8 PASOS PUBLIC POLICY CENTRES public A Directory of Think-Tanks in Central policy and Eastern Europe and Central Asia centres www.pasos.org A network of policy centres in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia PASOS, the Policy Association for an Open Society, promotes and protects open society values, including democracy, rule of law, good governance, respect for and protection of human rights, and economic and social development by supporting independent policy centres. PASOS Těšnov 3 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic Tel/fax: +420 2223 13644 Email: [email protected] www.pasos.org 3 PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 PASOS PUBLIC POLICY CENTRES A Directory of Think-Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia 2007/8 PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 PASOS PUBLIC POLICY CENTRES 2007/8 A Directory of Think-Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Editor: Jeff Lovitt Project staff: Petr Jan Pajas, Eva Rybková Project assistants: Lenka Orsagová, Liesbet van Hout, Diana Mastracci Sanchez Design by Alena Burianová, 2007 Printed in Prague, Czech Republic, by GÖFI-PRINT s.r.o., October 2007 © 2007 PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), Sdružení pro podporu otevřené společnosti – PASOS Registered address: Prokopova 97/9 30 00 Praha 3 Czech Republic Postal Address: Těšnov 3 110 00 Praha Czech Republic Tel/fax: +420 2223 3644 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pasos.org ISBN 978-80-254-0627-4 2 PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 Contents CONTENTS Introduction Sharing the Lessons of Transition throughout Europe and Central Asia .................................. 8 PASOS Members’ Joint Projects ............................................................................. 0 PASOS Members (and Associate Members *) ALBANIA Institute for Contemporary Studies (ISB), Tirana ................................................................ 23 ARMENIA International Center for Human Development (ICHD), Yerevan ........................................... 3 AZERBAIJAN Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), Baku .............................................. 37 Economic Research Center (ERC), Baku .......................................................................... 43 BULGARIA Center for Economic Development (CED), Sofia ............................................................... 49 European Institute (EI), Sofia .......................................................................................... 59 International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR)*, Sofia ................ 65 CROATIA iDEMO Institute for Democracy (iDEMO)*, Zagreb .......................................................... 7 CZECH REPUBLIC Association for International Affairs (AMO)*, Prague ....................................................... 77 EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy (EUROPEUM), Prague ......................................... 82 ESTONIA PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies (PRAXIS), Tallinn ............................................................ 89 GEORGIA Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), Tbilisi ....................... 0 Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Tbilisi ........................................................................... 07 HUNGARY Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University (CPS - CEU), Budapest ............ 3 Local Government Initiative Development Limited (LGID), Budapest ................................... 2 KAZAKHSTAN Public Policy Research Center (PPRC), Almaty ................................................................ 29 KYRGYZSTAN Center for Public Policy (CPP), Bishkek .......................................................................... 39 LATVIA Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS (PROVIDUS), Riga .................................................... 45 PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 3 Contents MACEDONIA Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM), Skopje ................................................. 53 International Centre for European Culture Euro Balkan Institute (Euro-Balkan), Skopje ......... 64 MOLDOVA Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) “Viitorul“, Chisinau ........................... 73 Institute for Public Policy (IPP), Chisinau ......................................................................... 84 POLAND Institute of Public Affairs (ISP), Warsaw ......................................................................... 9 ROMANIA Center for Rural Assistance (CAR)*, Timisoara ............................................................... 205 Institute for Public Policy (IPP), Bucharest........................................................................ 23 Romanian Center for Economic Policies (CEROPE)*, Bucharest ........................................ 220 RUSSIA Center for Legal Support to Local Government (LSLG), Moscow ....................................... 225 Strategia - St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies (Strategia), St Petersburg ............................................................................................................. 229 SERBIA Jefferson Institute, Belgrade ......................................................................................... 237 SLOVAKIA Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Bratislava ..................................................................... 245 SLOVENIA Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana ............... 257 UKRAINE International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), Kiev ......................................................... 265 Other policy centres ALBANIA ................................................................................................................ 279 AGENDA Institute ARMENIA ............................................................................................................... 279 Social Policy and Development Center(SPDC) BELARUS ................................................................................................................. 279 Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) BELGIUM ..........................................................................................................280-28 BRUEGEL Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) European Policy Centre (EPC) European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN) EU-Russia Centre Friends of Europe International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) 4 PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 Contents BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ............................................................................... 282 Center for Policy Studies (CEPOS) European Research Centre BULGARIA .............................................................................................................. 282 Centre for Liberal Strategies (CLS) CROATIA ................................................................................................................. 283 Centre for Educational Research and Development, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (CERD) CEPOR SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy Center CZECH REPUBLIC .................................................................................................... 283 Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) FRANCE .................................................................................................................. 284 Notre Europe GEORGIA ................................................................................................................ 284 Partnership for Social Initiatives (PSI) HUNGARY ........................................................................................................284-285 DEMOS Hungary Eötvös Károly Public Policy Institute (EKI) ITALY ....................................................................................................................... 285 Central and Eastern European University Network (CEEUN) - Transition Studies World Applied Research KOSOVO ..........................................................................................................285-286 Forum 205 Kosovo Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) KYRGYZSTAN ..................................................................................................286-287 Analytical Consortium “Perspective” (ACP) Center for Social and Economic Research in Kyrgyzstan (CASE-Kyrgyzstan) Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Institute for Public Policy (IPP) Investment Round Table (IRT) LATVIA .................................................................................................................... 287 Latvian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) LITHUANIA ............................................................................................................. 288 Civil Society Institute MACEDONIA .......................................................................................................... 288 Analytica MOLDOVA .............................................................................................................. 288 Expert Grup PASOS Public Policy Centres 2007/8 5 Contents MONTENEGRO ....................................................................................................... 289 CEDEM - Centre for Democracy and Human Rights POLAND ...........................................................................................................289-290 CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research Center for International Relations demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy ROMANIA .............................................................................................................
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