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10 years of protests in the Middle East and North Africa. Dynamics of mobilization in a complex (geo)political environment
Start/End: 2020 - 2021A 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...
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Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission - EuroMeSCo
Start/End: 1996 - 2020IAI participates in the activities EuroMeSCo - the euro-Mediterranean network of non-governmental institutions dealing with foreign policy and security.
Between 2015 and 2019, IAI was part...
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Fostering a New Security Architecture in the Middle East
Start/End: 2020 - 2020The 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...
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Europe and Iran in a fast-changing Middle East: Confidence-building measures, security dialogue and regional cooperation
Start/End: 2018 - 2019The regional order that prevailed in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War has come under increased strain as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the consequent...
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Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations – MENARA
Start/End: 2016 - 2019The 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,...
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A comprehensive, integrated, and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region, and reconstruct inclusive, responsive, and flexible EU policies in it – MEDRESET
Start/End: 2016 - 2019Euro-Mediterranean policies, as well as research on them, have been characterized by a Euro-centric approach based on a narrow geopolitical construction of the Mediterranean. Moreover,...
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The EU’s New Resilience Agenda in the MENA Region
Start/End: 2017 - 2018The 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...
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POWER2YOUTH - Freedom, dignity and justice
Start/End: 2014 - 2017Power2Youth is a consortium made up of 12 institutes and universities funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The project studied the causes and effects of processes of...
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Regional cooperation and energy resource development in the Eastern Mediterranean
Start/End: 2016 - 2016The project aimed to analyse and define the influence of heterogeneous political interests on energy dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean, and vice versa, in light of the recent discovery of...
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The Future of Gas Markets
Start/End: 2015 - 2016The project, running from May 2015 to May 2016 and leading to the publication of an edited volume, assesses the evolution of the global gas markets, in relation to the changing dynamics of the oil...