The project (September 2025-December 2026) examines the negotiations for the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and their implications for the European political landscape, with…
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…
“How can the EU invigorate its enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe’s resilience?"
This project aims to investigate how to reform the EU’s enlargement strategy in a new…
The Italian-German Strategic Dialogue (IGSD) is the continuation of the Italian-German Strategic Forum, organised by the IAI since 2016 on an almost annual basis. From the outset, the aim of the…
In spite of differences, Italy and the Netherlands are both founding members of the European Union and share a common outlook in a number of policy areas that are crucial to the EU’s future. The Van…
IAI is part of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) together with five other leading European international cooperation think tanks: the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS),…
Over the past few years, the debates within and among EU member states on political issues have become more intense and often controversial. Following the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliaments…
The elections for the European Parliament are a milestone for the future of the European Union. It is a moment of democratic legitimacy for the EU as European citizens are called upon to vote…
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…
RECLAIM addresses the challenge of post-truth politics for the future of liberal democracy in Europe. The project (October 2022-September 2025) focuses on the concept of liberal democracy in the 21st…
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…
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…
Within the Conference on the Future of Europe, launched in 2020 by the European Parliament and the Commission, the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) will set up three Citizens’ Dialogues to engage…
The conference on the Future of Europe represented an important occasion to involve citizens, their democratically elected representatives at all levels and civil society organizations in a…
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…
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,…
The project focused on the governance of security sector reform (SSR) in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and on its interlinkages with other regional security processes. The analysis of governance…
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…
The EUGS Watch project – launched by the IAI and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) – aimed at critically assessing how the goals included in the Strategy are translating…
The research firstly analysed the factors underpinning good governance in the Sahel, and secondly considered how the quality of governance is influenced by and can affect the management of…
The project, inaugurated with a kick-off meeting held at the IAI on 7 November 2017, led to the publication of six policy papers prepared by experts in the sector. Three of them deal with…
This project comparatively analysed Italian and Spanish approaches to migration in the Sahel region. Promoted by the Italian Embassy in Madrid, and coordinated by IAI and the Elcano Royal Institute,…
The project aimed to reconceptualise the existing links between migration, development and security in the Sahel, a region where this nexus is particularly pronounced. The research also sought to…
The African Futures project, coordinated by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), explores possible trends and scenarios over a 10-15 year period in Africa: what is likely to…
In recent years, a series of strategic challenges have shaken the foundations of the EU’s integration project, leading to the emergence of existential threats in the institutional, political and…
This project, developed in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Office in Rome and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, filled a gap in the already intense and…
The project is focused on the strategic significance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the various international actors that have established a diversified and increasingly important presence in the…
The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), in cooperation with the Institut Français Italia, organizes a France-Italy Strategic Forum with the aim to analyze and discuss a number of issues on which…
Preventing the outbreak of conflicts and promoting a sustainable peace remains a key challenge for policy-makers and analysts. The EU and Member States should acquire adequate capabilities in order…
The institutional architecture of the European Union (EU) and the different decision-making procedures regulating European policies pose several questions on the existence of a government for the…
In light of the recent approval by NATO of the new Policy and Action Plan to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, the project is part of a series of activity…
In the framework of the “Citizens’ dialogues” initiative promoted by the European Commission, a series of conferences on the major crises affecting the European neighbourhood were organised by IAI in…
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…
The project was launched by the King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium) and supported by a large transnational consortium of European foundations. Project partners included organisations from across…
The project was conducted in collaboration with Notre Europe, within the framework of the Vote Watch Europe Annual Report. Twelve European think-tanks took part in the project, which aimed to…
The aim of the project is to investigate the elements and the impact of the cooperation between the major international players in the use of coercive diplomacy focusing on the instrument of…
This project analyses major political, economic and social trends in the wider Atlantic basin with the view to identify potential evolutionary patterns. The research unfolds on various policy domains…
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…
The conference has been organised in collaboration with the TEPSA network and Theseus, and with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Representation of the European Commission…
In 2012 the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Real Instituto Elcano (Madrid), Polish Institute of International Affairs (Warsaw) and Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm) have…
Following the study on the Fiscal Compact in 2012 , the IAI continued to analyze the problems arising from the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone, with a concentration on the institutional and…
The objective of this project was to assess which policies and initiatives the European Union and the African Union should take to involve African sub-regional organizations and civil society in the…
The research aims at examining the latest developments in the area of ESDP/CSDP and to outlininge future scenarios for crisis management carried out by the European Union.
Particular emphasis…
The objective of this research project is to assess the evolution of EU crisis management missions and the participation of Italy. In particular, it aims to evaluate the effectiveness of EU missions,…
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…
The project was aimed at assessing the European Union's possible contribution to peace and security in Africa, focusing on the development of the African Union's security policies, conflict…
MERCURY was a three-year research project coordinated by the University of Edimburgh. It analysed the various forms of multilateralism worldwide adopting a definition of multilateralism that takes…
In 2009 the Institute started up a research program on the security policies of the African Union and European Union's role in contributing to the growth of African capabilities in crisis prevention…
Acting on indications from its honorary president, Senator Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,in 2007 the institute deliberated on the relaunching of the EU's institutional reform process and of Italy's role in…
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…