The project, carried out from September 2025 to August 2026 with the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CSF, examines the main challenges facing the European Union vis-à…
This project aims at studying the Italian development cooperation agenda within the current international context, with particular attention posed on the effects of the multiple crises and those…
SCOPE is a four-year project (September 2024-September 2028) that aims to support the European Commission in ensuring the coherence, coordination, and visibility of the Global Threats programme of…
ENSURED is a collaborative project (November 2023-October 2026) consisting of 14 partners from all around the word, whose aim is to understand how the EU and its member states can defend and…
he International Affairs Institute (IAI) and the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation (VCDNP) in the framework of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC) have…
This project – which the IAI conducts in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo – aims at analyzing the challenges of “geofinance”, studying the main developments and changes in the global economy and…
The International Affairs Institute (IAI), with the support of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC), is in charge of the organisation of the EUNPD Next Generation Workshops on…
In February 2018, thanks to a Decision by the Council of the European Union, IAI became a member of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium. The NPD Consortium has the task to contribute…
Since 2013 IAI, in cooperation with Centro Interdipartimentale di ricerca sul cambiamento politico (CIRCaP) of the University of Siena, has realized periodic surveys aimed at identifying and…
Since 2012, IAI has been a member - the only Italian member - of the Council of Councils (CoC), a network of major international foreign policy think tanks organized by the Council on Foreign…
This a joint project conducted by IAI and three other research centres in cooperation with Italy's Parliament. The objective is to provide members of parliaments, in particular the delegations to the…
The objective of the project is to analyse the importance of the epidemic risk for European and global security, as well as to foster a public debate regarding the role played by the private sector…
This project aims to assess and strengthen cooperation between Europe and Africa in the field of digital governance, within a global context marked by multiple crises that have exposed the fragility…
The geopolitical and geoeconomic shocks of the recent years have exposed the vulnerabilities of value chains and the EU’s strategic dependence on other global actors, such as China and the United…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), as co-chair of Think7 (T7) - the official engagement group of the Italian G7 presidency that brings together leading think tanks and research centres from…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), as co-chair of Think7 (T7) – the official engagement group of the Italian G7 presidency that brings together leading think tanks and research centres from…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), along the year which saw the Italian government at the presidency of the G7, has undertaken a project to monitor and analyse the developments in the…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), as co-chair of Think7 (T7) – the official engagement group of the Italian G7 presidency that brings together leading think tanks and research centres from…
This project examines the fight for the elimination of malaria as a case study for the broader debates that the global health community is currently engaged in, such as the climate change and health…
The goal of this project is to analyse current initiatives that aim to strengthen and broaden transatlantic dialogue and cooperation on the challenges posed by technological development, with…
Think7 (T7) is the official think tank engagement group of the Group of 7 (G7). It provides research-based policy recommendations for G7 countries and partners.
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This project aimed to fuel a evidence-based and multi-stakeholder debate on Italy’s official development assistance (ODA), in view of the OECD-DAC commitment to allocate 0.7 percent of gross national…
The project seeks to explore the obstacles and possibilities for cooperation between the US and Europe in key sectors, in the context of increasing geo-economic rivalry among global superpowers, as…
The 'Art and Politics' project was managed by the Istituto Affari Internazionali in collaboration with the DG "Public and Cultural Diplomacy" of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and…
The project examines the implications of the war against Ukraine on the security structure in Europe and the conditions for rebuilding a strategic balance through new deterrence relationships and new…
The REGROUP project (September 2022-August 2025) aims to: 1) provide the European Union with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild postpandemic governance and public policies in an effective…
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…
The project aimed to raise awareness and promote a national debate on the importance of Italy’s development cooperation, in view of the OECD-DAC target to allocate 0.7% of GNI to ODA and in light of…
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…
The IAI, as part of a Consortium, launched the SPACEWAYS project. The European Commission selected a consortium of major European launcher and satellite manufacturers, operators and service providers…
The Think-20 (T20) serves as an official engagement group of the G20 bringing together the major think tanks and research centers working on the G20 agenda and global governance issues. IAI has been…
The objective of the project was to analyze the projection and role of the EU in the world, with a particular focus on the new policies and initiatives the Union should undertake within the new…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) is the scientific partner in a project developed by the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) with the aim of contributing to the on-going…
The project aims at investigating the challenges and policy priorities of the Italian Presidency of the G20 in 2021 in light of the recent developments of the G20 agenda. In particular, it focuses on…
The project has two main objectives:
to increase the knowledge of the Italian next generation and civil society of the problems relating to arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, with…
This project put Italian foreign policy at the center of the debate and investigated Italy's objectives, strategies and actions on the European and international chessboard. The Observatory on…
The D-10 Strategy Forum is a network of representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus the European Union, - the…
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…
At the beginning of 2014, IAI and the OCP Policy Center have launched a new research project on the topics of food security in the Middle East and North Africa and on the role of the European Union…
EU-US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - aimed at creating a free trade area and establishing shared standards and rules - are of strategic importance for the…
This series of conferences aims to contribute to the debates on the impact of the economic crisis and the new instruments of European economic governance with particular regard to their effects on…
At the end of 2012, IAI launched a strategic partnership with the OCP Policy Center in Rabat dealing with Mediterranean issues This three-year research and outreach endeavoured leverages IAI's…
The initiative is part of the collaboration that the IAI has implemented, with the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai), with China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (Cicir) in…
This project, implemented with the support of the Policy Center of the OCP Foundation from Morocco with which IAI has launched in 2012 a three-year strategic partnership, aims at assessing the use…
In this project, lasting 14 months, IAI acts as project leader. The study intends to provide a comparative analysis of the EU-US relationship with regard, in particular, to the definition of the…
IAI's pluriannual activity regarding the debate on Europe's future continued in 2005 with the monitoring of the ratification processes of the new Constitutional Treaty in various European countries…
This project was for a while IAI’s most structured cooperation initiative with one of the houses of Italy’s Parliament, the Senate of the Republic. Given its success, in 2009 the project evolved into…
The aim of the project is to promote a network of experts on both sides of the Atlantic so as to provide a continuous and systematic analysis of developments in the European Security and Defence…
FORNET was a project aimed at setting up a network for European research on governance in the field of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), based on the interaction among various research…
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…
CONVEU -- a project supported by the European Commission as part of the PRINCE programme -- started in September 2002 and ended in June 2003. The project involved a network of eight institutes…
Carried out in collaboration with CeSPI, this project analysed three aspects of European security: institutional problems, emblematic cases of implementation of the common foreign and security policy…
Launched in 2001, this multi-year program examined issues pertaining to institutional reform of the European Union in the light of enlargement to central and southern Europe and developments in the…
An integral part of the transatlantic program funded by the German Marshall Fund, this project examined the state of political cooperation between Europe and the United States in order to advance…