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 [4] of the Brookings Institution in Washington and a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS [5]). He holds a summa-cum-laude PhD from the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis [6] (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and editor of The Liberal Order and its Contestations [7] (Routledge 2018) and The West and the Global Power Shift [8] (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).