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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Defence Matters 2015
The project aims to stimulate the national public debate on a double focus: the Nato role in the current security environment, and the implication of the Italian White Book on International Security...Start/End: 2015 -
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 -
Defence Matters 2013
The research project aims to analyze the Italian debate on military issues, in particular with respect to defence spending and Italian participation in mission abroad. Besides working on primary and...Start/End: 2013 -
Study on the impact on European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) of defence offsets requested by third countries
The study aims at analyzing offsets in the international defence market with a particular focus on European aerospace, defence and security industry. Through the study of 9 non-European countries,...Start/End: 2013 -
Partnership with NATO Defense College
Since 2011, IAI and NATO Defense College (NDC) collaborate on several initiatives aiming at stimulating debates on themes concerning Euro-Atlantic security, the role of the Alliance and its relations...Start/End: 2011 -
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 -
MEDI (Mapping of the European Defence Industry)
IAI role in MEDI was to support JRC (Joint Research Center) and the EU Commission's DG Market and Enterprise in gathering data and analyses related to defence industry and budgets in Italy, within a...Start/End: 2006 -
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 -
Open Cooperation for European mAritime awareNess - OCEAN2020
The project “Open Cooperation for European mAritime awareNess” - OCEAN2020 – was one of the first call of the Preparatory Action on Defence Research devoted to funding research in the defence field...Start/End: 2018 -
The role of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in Italy and Europe
The research project aimed at analyzing Italy's and Europe's investment in the JSF aeronautical program, providing suggestions on how to improve the program's performance at the European level....Start/End: 2007 -
Il sistema del supporto logistico delle Forze Armate. Problemi e prospettive
The study examined the requirements pressing for a modern national logistics support system and the problems linked to implementing and managing it, in light of the international experience which...Start/End: 2000 -
The future of military helicopters between technological innovation and war’s lessons learned
The helicopter sector is about to make a generational leap forward in military, technological, and industrial terms, which entails both challenges and opportunities for Europe, also in light of the...Start/End: 2022 -
European Think Tanks Contact Group on Libya. Towards a new common European narrative on Libya
The emergence of a National Unity Government (GNU) led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in mid-March 2021 had initially given rise to cautious optimism for the Libyan transition. Yet, many...Start/End: 2021 -
Defence and Security Matters 2017
The project “Defence and Security Matters 2017: Italy”, funded by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, contributes to the effort to communicate and discuss NATO purpose and role, particularly in...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