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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 -
Security and Defence Programme
Relations with the administrations involved in security and defence policy Consulting services, also by means of documents and notes written for this specific purpose, in order to upgrade the...Start/End: 1996 -
Strategic competition in Space and space economy: challenges and opportunities for Italy
In the confrontation between powers, space has played an essential role in the past and strategic competition continues to characterize the space environment, perceived by world powers as the "higher...Start/End: 2022 -
Short Range Air Defence and threats to global security
Air defence has to respond and adapt to the evolution of air threats that are becoming increasingly diverse, not only in terms of of attack systems performance, but also of platform types. Piloted...Start/End: 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The defence of civilian air traffic systems from cyber threats
The use of ICT in civil aviation has increased exponentially in the last years. Digitalization and the technological tools and systems often connected to the internet constitute serious risks for...Start/End: 2015 -
The security in the Mediterranean and Italy
The project’s objective was to further explore from different perspectives the importance of Mediterranean’s security, not only for Italy but also for Europe. The so-called “Mare Nostrum” is ever...Start/End: 2015 -
Forza NEC programme and Europe
The main goal of this project is to examine how the growing complexity of the international security environment, the increasing "joint and combined" dimension of military operations, and the new...Start/End: 2011 -
SAGA - Satellite Advanced Global Architecture for Security
The main objective of the project is to identify potential innovative solutions for the realization of a global satellite architecture providing communication services that respond to the technical...Start/End: 2011 -
Il ruolo dell'elicottero nel nuovo scenario militare: le prospettive italiane
This research project started with an examination of recent military experiences and the strategic debate and moved toward consideration of the effective potentials of the helicopter in the new...Start/End: 1999 -
Framework contract for Permanent Monitoring and Analysis of military capabilities and defence sector trends
This four-year project coordinated by IAI, provided a constant monitoring of military capabilities of EU Member States and other associated countries, through the creation and management of a...Start/End: 2015 -
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 -
The strategic nature of space for global and Italian security
The increasing use of space for security and defence purposes highlights the strategic dimension of the sector. The project analysed the global strategic competition in space and the implications for...Start/End: 2021 -
Women and Peace Operations: Achievement of the Italian Mission in Herat
This research was conducted by the Institute of International Affairs (IAI) in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD). As part of the initiatives carried out by IAI's...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 -
Defence Matters 2016
The project aims at stimulating the Italian public debate over defence issues, in particular on the role of NATO in the current international context and Italy’s defence policy. Based on the...Start/End: 2016
