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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The security-migration-development nexus revised: a perspective from the Sahel
The project aimed to reconceptualise the existing links between migration, development and security in the Sahel, a region where this nexus is particularly pronounced. The research also sought to...Start/End: 2017 -
Morocco’s Role in Fostering Euro-Mediterranean Energy Cooperation
Energy cooperation features as one of the key issues at stake in the framework of today’s Euro-Mediterranean relations. In light of the significant geo-political changes taking place at the global...Start/End: 2014 -
EU Energy policies towards the Mediterranean
North African countries are experiencing an unprecedented set of political, economic, social and demographic changes that are likely to significantly modify the energy needs in the region. To face...Start/End: 2014 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A comparative analysis of Italian and Spanish approaches to migration: the case of the Sahel
This project comparatively analysed Italian and Spanish approaches to migration in the Sahel region. Promoted by the Italian Embassy in Madrid, and coordinated by IAI and the Elcano Royal Institute,...Start/End: 2017 -
Regional cooperation and energy resource development in the Eastern Mediterranean
The project aimed to analyse and define the influence of heterogeneous political interests on energy dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean, and vice versa, in light of the recent discovery of large...Start/End: 2016 -
MEDPRO - Prospective analysis for the Mediterranean region
MEDPRO is a consortium of 17 institutions from throughout the Mediterranean, funded under the EU's 7th Framework Programme and coordinated by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). The...Start/End: 2010 -
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 -
Ten Years of Crisis in the Sahel Region. Perspectives for an EU Contribution to Peace and Security
Ten years from its outbreak, the Sahel crisis has assumed a new dimension in terms of degeneration of legitimate governance and regional security structures (ECOWAS and African Union), compounded by...Start/End: 2022 -
IT FLOWS - IT Tools and Methods for Managing Migration Flows
Prediction and management of migration are a major challenge for the European Union and also for many different stakeholder groups that provide resources and assistance to migrants along their...Start/End: 2020 -
The EU’s New Resilience Agenda in the MENA Region
The new EU Global Strategy (EUGS) ‘Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe’ unveiled in late June 2016 could represent a point of departure to re-calibrate the EU’s external and security...Start/End: 2017
