Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). His main area of expertise is transatlantic relations, with a particular focus on US and European policies towards Europe’s surrounding regions. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution [4] in Washington and a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS [5]). He has coordinated the EU-funded TRANSWORLD [6] project on transatlantic relations and global governance (7th Framework Programme) and the JOINT [7] project on EU foreign and security policy (Horizon 2020). Riccardo is the author of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis [8] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-author, with Pol Bargués, of Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Relational Power Europe [9] (Routledge, 2025). He also edited The Liberal Order and its Contestations [10] (Routledge, 2018). He holds a summa cum laude PhD from the University of Tübingen.