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 security strategies of both actors, the evolution of their internal security, the security industry in the transatlantic context and the different approaches and perspectives of the respective transatlantic policies. The project includes two series of workshops to be held in Rome, Washington, Paris and Stockholm which involve both researchers of the four partner institutes and external experts.

The sixth edition of the Transatlantic Security Symposium took place on 2 December 2013 at Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The conference focussed on "Transatlantic Security in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa", two regions that have become more interconnected with the Mediterranean zone following the Arab uprisings. The Symposium first analyzed more in-depth the political and security dynamics set in motion by revolutions, regime changes and civil war in North Africa and shed light on the implications for the US and the EU.