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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 -
The Dynamics of Change in the Arab World
In the second half of 2005, IAI in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA-UI) launched a multi-annual research project aimed at developing and updating the...Start/End: 2005 -
Islamist Movements and Political Change in the Arab World
This project was conducted in cooperation with the Centro studi di politica internazionale (CesPI) and International IDEA and assessed: 1) the recent evolution of moderate Islamism and its role in...Start/End: 2007 -
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 -
La Primavera Araba: Sfide e Opportunità Sociali e Economiche
This project, carried out with the support of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), focuses its attention on three case studies: Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. The objective...Start/End: 2011 -
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 -
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 -
Egypt in transition
IAI launched a two-years (2013-2014) project focused on Egyptian uncertain transition. Following closely the evolution of the events, the study - divided into quarterly reports - analyzed the socio-...Start/End: 2013 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
Fostering a New Security Architecture in the Middle East
The Middle East has experienced growing tensions as a result of competing geopolitical agendas and reciprocal meddling in the internal affairs of states. These dynamics are being reinforced by...Start/End: 2020 -
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 -
Cooperation in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
This program - launched in 2009 on the basis of a strategic partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) (see press release) - aimed at exploring the possibilities of...Start/End: 2009
