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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Cooperation with WE_World Energy, WE_About Energy and Orizzonti
Within the Eni magazines, IAI carries out analyses of the main events and trends in the international energy sector, contextualising them in the broader global political scenario. World Energy...Start/End: 2017 -
The Future of Gas Markets
The project, running from May 2015 to May 2016 and leading to the publication of an edited volume, assesses the evolution of the global gas markets, in relation to the changing dynamics of the oil...Start/End: 2015 -
The role of Italy in the international economy of hydrogen: geo-economic and geopolitical implications
The role of hydrogen to achieve climate goals is emerging clearly. This molecule presents some favourable characteristics that allow to overcome some limitations of electrification, such as the...Start/End: 2021 -
Green Deal Watch
The aim of the “Green Deal Watch” project is to follow the evolution of the ambitious and cross-cutting “European Green Deal” strategy towards climate neutrality launched by the Von der Leyen...Start/End: 2020 -
Geopolitics in the age of renewable energies: challenges and opportunities for the Italian foreign policy
The objective of the project was to define and detail the main changes taking place in the global energy sector - first and foremost the process of decarbonisation and the progressive integration of...Start/End: 2019 -
Delivering Italy’s coal phase out – Policy options and international implications
In the effort to decarbonize its power sector, the Italian government has committed to phase out coal by 2025, as outlined by the National Energy Strategy (SEN) adopted at the end of 2017. Indeed,...Start/End: 2018 -
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 -
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 -
Energy Union Watch
The project monitored the activities of the key EU institutions—the European Commission, as well as the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the European Council — on the theme of the...Start/End: 2015