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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 -
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 -
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 -
How to Better Involve Citizens in the European Integration Process: Evaluations and Proposals in View of the Upcoming European Parliament Elections
The project aimed to develop analyses and proposals to strengthen European democracy and renew the approach of citizens to EU institutions in view of the June 2009 European Parliament elections. The...Start/End: 2009 -
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 -
Promoting stability and development in Africa: How to foster cooperation between public and private sector
The aim of this project - launched by a kick-off meeting in Brussels on 3 July 2014 and a conference in Turin on 1-2 December 2014 - is to evaluate how public and private sector can collaborate and...Start/End: 2014 -
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 -
How to Enhance European citizens’ participation in the European Integration
This is a follow-up of the research project on European democracy, launched by the IAI, in co-operation with Notre Europe (Paris) and the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (Turin) in early 2009, before...Start/End: 2009 -
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 -
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 -
Democratic control of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
As a follow-up to the seminar organized at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 15, 2010 in cooperation with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), and the research work...Start/End: 2010 -
Competition, cultural variety and global governance: the case of the global audio-video system
This study - in cooperation with the HWWA-Institute fur Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg - was centred on the internationalisation processes under way in the audio-video sector and relative national...Start/End: 2002 -
Capacity Building for the MENA Countries in the Forthcoming WTO Negotiations: the Core Area of Services Networks
This capacity-building project, managed jointly by the IAI and the World Bank Institute (Washington) aimed to analyze the negotiating issues at the core of the future multilateral talks of the World...Start/End: 2002 -
Seminar series "Verso le elezioni europee 2014"
This seminar series focused on the road leading to the May 2014 European Parliament elections. Public events were preceded by preliminary studies and dealt with the challenges and opportunities in...Start/End: 2013 -
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 -
Safeguarding human rights and UN reform: the institution of the Human Rights Council
This research, conducted together with the Istituto Universitario Europeo (Prof. Francioni), revolved around the Human Rights Council that was instituted by the UN General Assembly on 3 April 2006 (...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