Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. His main areas of expertise include 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). Riccardo holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen. His recent publications include Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and, as co-editor, The West and the Global Power Shift (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).