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- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Research
The purpose of IsAG is to spread the study of geopolitics and inspire a wide and deep debate on Italian foreign policy and on its implications in the various regional areas of the world. Apart from its scientific research dimension, IsAG takes action in public diplomacy, in an independent way, favouring political, cultural and economic relations of Italy with other countries, and thus acting in the so called field of “informal diplomacy”.
The main publications of the Institute are its Reports and the half-yearly Geopolitica. As far as the Reports (ISSN: 2281 – 8553) are concerned, they offer to readers, free of charge and on-line, in Italian or in English, tools to deepen specific international issues. The half-yearly Geopolitica, recognized as a scientific journal by the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research for the areas 11 (Historical, philosophical and psychological sciences) 13 (Economic and statistic sciences) and 14 (Political and social sciences), deals with specific topics of geopolitical and strategic interest. IsAG, as a publishing house, also contributes to the release of monographs and collective works that deal with issues related to the interests and the activities of the institute. To conclude, it promotes forums, seminars, conferences and round-tables that allow experts, scholars and leading actors of foreign countries' politics to meet.
In detail, IsAG has ten research programs, organized on the basis of geographical areas or themes: Africa, Latin America, Artic and Antarctica, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Geo-economics, Infrastructures and territorial development, North Africa and Near East, Strategy and, lastly, Theory and History of Geopolitics.
More specifically, the research program on North Africa and Near East has among its objectives the analysis of the countries of the African continent, as well as of those countries of the Asian continent that border the Mediterranean Sea. In greater detail, the area of North Africa includes those States that have a coast on the Mediterranean Sea, i.e. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt; on the other hand, the countries of the Near East are those of the western side of Asia (Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria) as well as Iraq and the Arabic Peninsula.
The undoubted geo-strategic and geopolitical importance of the whole region imposes an in-depth analysis but, at the same time, a study that can identify and analyze the ties among the phenomena that dominate the current regional scenario. The research also takes into account the different relations between the macro-region of North Africa and Near East and the other main global actors.