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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
Europe and Iran in a fast-changing Middle East: Confidence-building measures, security dialogue and regional cooperation
The regional order that prevailed in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War has come under increased strain as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the consequent...Start/End: 2018 -
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
