Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. His main area of expertise are transatlantic relations, with a special focus on US and European policies in Europe’s surrounding regions. Riccardo has been a visiting fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe of the Brookings Institution in Washington and a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS). He holds a summa-cum-laude PhD from the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and as editor of The Liberal Order and its Contestations (Routledge 2018) and The West and the Global Power Shift (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).