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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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN)
The initiative for a Mediterranean Women Mediators Network aims at fulfilling the need to increase the number of women involved in peacemaking efforts and facilitating the appointment of women...Start/End: 2017 -
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 -
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 -
New-Med Research Network: The Future of Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Established in June 2014, the New-Med Research Network is an independent research and engagement initiative combining track II and track I.5 formats to address underlining security and socio-...Start/End: 2014