EU-Africa Digital Partnership
This edited volume aims to provide rigorous analysis of the main challenges and opportunities for digital cooperation and partnership between the EU and Africa through two key European policy…
Melis Baydag, Ben Crumpton, Benedikt Erforth, Niels Keijzer, Marianna Lunardini, Camilla Rocca, Darlington Tshuma
Spotlight
What Role for Italy’s Infrastructure Diplomacy? Lessons from the Lobito Corridor
The Lobito Corridor has become a strategic test case for Western infrastructure diplomacy in Africa, intersecting critical raw materials, global supply chains and the evolving balance between EU, US…
Liberal Peacebuilding in Times of Change
This book explores why and how, in an era in which conflicts are turning into arenas of strategic competition, international organizations have become the ultimate guardians of liberal peace…
The Mattei Plan for Africa: From Aid to Partnership?
The Mattei Plan marks a pivot from traditional aid to a centralised investment model, positioning Italian state enterprises and financial institutions as the engines to de-risk…
Publications
Data pubblicazione
The Mattei Plan after the Addis Ababa Italy-Africa Summit
Autori
Filippo Simonelli
Details
In: IAI Commentaries
26|09
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 3 p.
Data pubblicazione
Conflict and Displacement in Africa: Advancing Durable and Sustainable Solutions through the Mattei Plan?
Autori
Darlington Tshuma
Details
In: IAI Commentaries
26|08
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 4 p.
Data pubblicazione
What Role for Italy’s Infrastructure Diplomacy? Lessons from the Lobito Corridor
Autori
Marianna Lunardini
Filippo Simonelli
Details
In: IAI Briefs
26|05
Rome, IAI, February 2026, 7 p.
Research
The project (September 2025-June 2026) aims to analyse Italy’s role in the Lobito Corridor. The research will provide the opportunity to focus on several key topics: critical raw materials and…
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…
Ten years from its outbreak, the Sahel crisis has assumed a new dimension in terms of degeneration of legitimate governance and regional security structures (ECOWAS and African Union), compounded by…
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Financing Development Cooperation: the Role of the Next EU Budget
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IAI in the media
LSE: The old order is fading. Can Africa build the next one?
International Studies: Italy-Africa Digital Partnership under the Mattei Plan
The conversation: Protecting victims of conflict: how African value systems could strengthen humanitarian law
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