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European reforms and Italy's priorities: strategic lines for a new European governance after the Ukrainian conflict
The project aims to define some priorities related to the Italian national interest in different strategic sectors. This initiative finds its focal point in the European agenda, stressing in...Start/End: 2022 -
La cooperazione economica e tecnologica Ue-Usa di fronte alle nuove sfide geostrategiche e il ruolo dell'Italia
The project seeks to explore the obstacles and possibilities for cooperation between the U.S. and Europe in key sectors, in the context of increasing geo-economic rivalry among global superpowers, as...Start/End: 2023 -
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 -
The EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Dialogue (TTD)
The TTD aims to support the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC), which was created to foster transatlantic alignment on trade, technology and economic policies. In partnership with the Centre...Start/End: 2022 -
ENSURED - Transforming and Defending Multilateralism: European Union Support for more Robust, Effective and Democratic Global Governance
ENSURED is a collaborative project consisting of 14 partners from all around the word, whose aim is to understand how the EU and its Member States can defend and transform the multilateral system to...Start/End: 2023 -
When Italy Embraces the BRI
The project analyzes the contents and implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and the People's Republic of China in the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The...Start/End: 2020 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Transatlantic Security Symposium - 5. ed.
The fifth edition of the Transatlantic Security Symposium was held on November 16, 2012 at Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The conference focused on the “Potential and Challenges of EU-...Start/End: 2012 -
The EU as a global actor in the UN reform process
This two-year research project was focused on the role of the European Union in the United Nations reform process, looking both at previous efforts and at current trends. The research is was...Start/End: 2009 -
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 -
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 -
Countering Chinese Disinformation in Italy
In recent years, Chinese leadership has made great efforts to mold elite and public opinion abroad, including in Italy, by developing a more assertive approach and new ways of communicating with...Start/End: 2022 -
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 -
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 -
Chinese investments in Italy: Facing risks and grasping opportunities
Chinese investments in Italy are similar to investments in other advanced economies, but also have country-specific features. From the point of view of Chinese investors, Italy is an attractive...Start/End: 2014 -
The Contribution of Italy and the European Union to the Collective Security System of the United Nations
This project assessed the contributions of Italy and the European Union to the functioning and reform of the UN security system and put forward policy recommendations aimed at increasing their role...Start/End: 2007
