[uniqueuid]

Nitpick: The Kiel Institute is not a think tank in the sense that people would understand the word.

It is a federally funded research organization (part of the family of Leibniz institutes) similar to a university but without teaching. Here's a list of the others [1].

These are independent, high-quality research institutions without political money or a designated political agenda.

[1] https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/institutes/leibniz-in...

[lingrush4]

The fact that they don't have an agenda written into their charter doesn't mean they don't have an agenda. Basically every American news organization is an example of this.

[uniqueuid]

While your assessment may be true in many contexts, this is not one of them.

American hyper polarization does not permeate other countries in the same degree and German academia is actually full of sober, level-headed, nuanced people.