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Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations – MENARA
The project – co-led by CIDOB, Barcelona, and IAI, that also leads the Work Packages (WPs) on the policy options and on dissemination and communication - aims to shed light on the historical,...Start/End: 2016 -
A comprehensive, integrated, and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region, and reconstruct inclusive, responsive, and flexible EU policies in it – MEDRESET
Euro-Mediterranean policies, as well as research on them, have been characterized by a Euro-centric approach based on a narrow geopolitical construction of the Mediterranean. Moreover, stakeholders,...Start/End: 2016 -
The EU, the US and the international strategic dimension of Sub-Saharan Africa: peace, security and development in the Horn of Africa
The project is focused on the strategic significance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the various international actors that have established a diversified and increasingly important presence in the...Start/End: 2016 -
Ensuring peace and security in Africa: Implementing a new EU-Africa partnership
The project was aimed at assessing the European Union's possible contribution to peace and security in Africa, focusing on the development of the African Union's security policies, conflict...Start/End: 2009 -
Conflict Prevention in the Framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
In 1996 the International Affairs Institute (IAI) begun a study aimed at concretely determining which measures of conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy can be implemented to set up the area of...Start/End: 1997 -
Climate mitigation, energy and food security goals within the Italian G7 Presidency
In 2024 Italy holds the Group of 7 (G7) Presidency, hosting ministerial meetings throughout the year and the leaders’ summit in June, at a very delicate time for global, European and Italian climate...Start/End: 2024 -
European Green Deal: Reaching Beyond Borders
The IAI-Enel Foundation paper series analyses the external dimension of the European Green Deal (EGD) and its “global” consequences, with a particular focus to how the EU, US and China interact with...Start/End: 2022 -
Revitalising the Study of EU Single Market Integration in a Turbulent Age - VISTA
This three-year project (2019-2022), led by the University of Maastricht, has three objectives: (a) to analyse the internal dynamics of the EU single market and the resulting external implications...Start/End: 2019 -
IAI-Eni Strategic Partnership
The initiative – in collaboration with Eni – aims at analyzing the challenges and huge opportunities related to energy transitions worldwide, assessing and rising awareness on their impact on...Start/End: 2018 -
The Changing Regional Role of Turkey and Cooperation with the EU in the Neighbourhood
Turkey has moved from being an interlocutor to a key player in its neighbourhood. The aim of this study is to explore the implications this has for Turkey's regional role, for its security,...Start/End: 2014 -
The future of the European energy policy: the Italian contribution
The aim of this project was to stimulate the Italian public debate on the EU energy policy, by proposing a set of options for the Italian Presidency of the EU (July-December 2014). The project...Start/End: 2014 -
Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission - EuroMeSCo
IAI participates in the activities EuroMeSCo - the euro-Mediterranean network of non-governmental institutions dealing with foreign policy and security. Between 2015 and 2019, IAI was part of a...Start/End: 1996 -
EU-GCC Cooperation
In recent years, IAI has been developing its relations with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in view of broadening its traditional focus on the Mediterranean and the Levant to this...Start/End: 2008 -
Programme for Promoting Conflict Prevention in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CP Med)
Between 2004 and 2006, the IAI and the Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention (RCCP) have been cooperating in a multi-annual project on conflict prevention in the Euro-Med region. The general goals...Start/End: 2004 -
The Mediterranean Microcosm in the Broader Relationship Between the West and the Arab-Muslim World - A study project
The project analyses the nature of societal change in the western Mediterranean region (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) and its likely impact on transatlantic relations. The project,...Start/End: 2010 -
Clean Molecules across the Mediterranean: Prospects for Hydrogen Exports from North Africa to Italy and the EU
The project aimed at introducing, studying and explaining the prospects of North African hydrogen exports to the European Union in the public debate, as well as to understand the rationale and...Start/End: 2020 -
EU-Middle East Network in Action – EUMENIA
EUMENIA is a Jean Monnet Network co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union for a duration of 3 years (2018-2021). It was led by the University of Amsterdam and encompassed seven more...Start/End: 2018 -
The Union for the Mediterranean
In the framework of the Barcelona Process, the summit of heads of state and government held in Paris on 13 July 2008 decided that the Union for the Mediterranean would replace the Euro-Mediterranean...Start/End: 2007