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More diverse than united? A comparative analysis of the EU elections 2024
In June 2024, EU citizens head to the polls for the 10th time to elect their representatives in the European Parliament. How are political parties addressing today’s complex challenges in their...Start/End: 2024 -
REWEU: (Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement
The project (Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement (REWEU) is focused on the commemoration of the 2004 “big bang” EU enlargement at the occasion of its 20th anniversary...Start/End: 2024 -
Italy and Norway: improving cooperation to face common challenges
This project, implemented by IAI in cooperation with the Embassy of Norway in Rome, include the production of 2-3 comparative policy papers on the topics of (1) European security architecture/...Start/End: 2021 -
The EU’s selective engagement with Russia
This project explored current developments in Russia's social, economic and political life by exclusively involving representatives of Russian civil society, academia and the independent media sector...Start/End: 2021 -
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 -
DiCE - Differentiation: Clustering Excellence
DiCE – a three year project funded by the EU – aimed to translate state-of-the-art research into policy-relevant advice on appropriate approaches to differentiation tendencies and proposals,...Start/End: 2020 -
EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability – EU IDEA
The recent evolution of the European Union’s politics and policies has demonstrated that differentiation can no longer be treated as an anomaly in the integration process. This has posed a key set of...Start/End: 2019 -
Europea. Parlano i fatti
In the six months preceding the European vote on May 26th, 2019, the Europea.info portal – a consortium led by IAI with Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF), Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (...Start/End: 2018 -
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 -
Towards a Citizens’ Union - 2CU
While anti-EU parties’ political narratives are build on the idea of ‘taking back control’, recent Eurobarometer polls suggest that European citizens want to see a better functioning EU in core areas...Start/End: 2017 -
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and the European security
The project’s objective is to further explore from different perspectives the role of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) within the European and national security framework. The results of the...Start/End: 2016 -
Fighter aircraft’ role in crisis management operations: Italy’s trends and needs
The study examines in primis the use of fighter aircraft by Italian Armed Forces in crisis management operations since 1991. Later, possible scenarios for the use of air power in the near future will...Start/End: 2014 -
The EU, Regional Conflicts and the Promotion of Regional Cooperation: A Successful Strategy for a Global Challenge?
This research aims to answer the question: "to what extent and under what conditions does the promotion of regional integration contribute to the positive transformation of regional conflicts?". The...Start/End: 2013 -
SHARAKA - Enhancing Understanding and Cooperation in EU-GCC Relations
This two-year project explored ways of promoting relations between the European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) by undertaking policy-oriented research, outreach and training...Start/End: 2012 -
The Italian parliament after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty
IAI was part of a trans-European project, coordinated by CEPS in Brussels, on the role of national parliaments in the EU decision-making process after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The...Start/End: 2011 -
European Security and Defence Forum
The European Security and Defence Forum (ESDF) has been established in 2009 to analyse the shifts and developments in national and European security and defence policies, and to promote a better...Start/End: 2009 -
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 -
The EU as a global player: institutional trends in CFSP/ESDP
This is a series of seminars organised in Italy and Germany under the leadership of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), with the participation of the IAI. The first seminar on "Institutional...Start/End: 2006 -
From the European Convention to public discourse: debating our common European future (EUCON)
This year-long international project aimed to promote public debate at the European level on the political and institutional future of the European Union. This objective was pursued through a...Start/End: 2003