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The war against Ukraine and European security
The project examines the implications of the war against Ukraine on the security structure in Europe and the conditions for rebuilding a strategic balance through new deterrence relationships and new...Start/End: 2022 -
Strengthening Italy’s foreign policy community
The project was aimed at fostering regular dialogue between Italian diplomats and international affairs experts, departing from the premise that plurality of ideas and perspectives enriches the...Start/End: 2022 -
The African Century: People, Agriculture and the Environment
This multimedia project aimed to describe the role of sustainable agriculture in the African development. It focused on Ghana, striving to analyse the dynamics that are affecting agricultural...Start/End: 2019 -
Mediterranean transitions: risks and opportunities for the Italian and European foreign, energy and security policies in the Southern Neighbourhood
The war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, and several initiatives to reshape regional and international partnerships and alliances have made the Southern Neighbourhood even more strategic for Italian...Start/End: 2023 -
EU crisis management missions and the role of Italy
The objective of this research project is to assess the evolution of EU crisis management missions and the participation of Italy. In particular, it aims to evaluate the effectiveness of EU missions...Start/End: 2009 -
IAI University of Turin Essay Prize
Launched by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) – in the framework of its strategic partnership with the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation – together with the Department of Historical Studies of...Start/End: 2021 -
Empowering Africa
The project offered an in-depth analysis of the current status, the future prospects and the main questions related to access to energy for household and industry in the African continent, such as...Start/End: 2017 -
Osce Contribution to Energy Governance in the Mediterranean
The project, to be completed by the end of December 2015, analyses the role of the OSCE as a political mediator and regional organization that promotes a kind of cooperative security, establishing a...Start/End: 2015 -
La Primavera Araba: Sfide e Opportunità Sociali e Economiche
This project, carried out with the support of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), focuses its attention on three case studies: Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. The objective...Start/End: 2011 -
From Mesco to EuroMeSCo
In 1994 the Institute contributed to set up the Mediterranean Study Commission (MeSCo), a network of Mediterranean people and institutions dealing with international and security affairs. After the...Start/End: 1994 -
The future of AU-EU cooperation: Towards a new era?
In early March 2020 the EU presented its document “Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa” in order to pave the way towards a new partnership with the African continent. The IAI project aimed...Start/End: 2021 -
10 years of protests in the Middle East and North Africa. Dynamics of mobilization in a complex (geo)political environment
A decade after the outbreak of protests in the Arab world, the processes of contestation and grassroots mobilisation continue to impact the Middle East. With the aim of understanding continuity and...Start/End: 2020 -
Promoting stability and development in Africa: How to foster cooperation between public and private sector
The aim of this project - launched by a kick-off meeting in Brussels on 3 July 2014 and a conference in Turin on 1-2 December 2014 - is to evaluate how public and private sector can collaborate and...Start/End: 2014 -
Strengthening the Africa-EU partnership on peace and security: how to engage African sub-regional organisations and civil society
The objective of this project was to assess which policies and initiatives the European Union and the African Union should take to involve African sub-regional organizations and civil society in the...Start/End: 2012 -
Transatlantic Security Symposium - 5. ed.
The fifth edition of the Transatlantic Security Symposium was held on November 16, 2012 at Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The conference focused on the “Potential and Challenges of EU-...Start/End: 2012 -
The Dynamics of Change in the Arab World
In the second half of 2005, IAI in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA-UI) launched a multi-annual research project aimed at developing and updating the...Start/End: 2005 -
African challenges to multilateralism: the geopolitics of the Nile between conflict and cooperation
The tensions between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan pertaining the GERD risk undermining the stability of the entire region of the Horn of Africa, which has been already tested by the recent crisis in...Start/End: 2021 -
Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in the Euro-Med Area
In 2000 the International Affairs Institute (IAI) launched a project aimed at creating a first nucleus of capabilities in conflict prevention in the Euro-Mediterranean framework, with a view to...Start/End: 2000 -
Bachelor’s and Master’s dissertation award IAI-Department of Culture, Politics and Society University of Turin
IAI, with the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, promotes the Bachelor’s and Master’s dissertation award ‘Italy and International Relations: History, Policies, Perspectives’, under the...Start/End: 2023 -
Governance and security in the Sahel: tackling mobility, demography and climate change
The research firstly analysed the factors underpinning good governance in the Sahel, and secondly considered how the quality of governance is influenced by and can affect the management of...Start/End: 2018
