Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at IAI. 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 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 TRANSWORLD [6] project on transatlantic relations and global governance, funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme, and the JOINT [7] project on EU foreign and security policy, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020. He is the author, amongst others, of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis [8] (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and the co-author (with Pol Bargués) of Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Relational Power Europe (Routledge, forthcoming), as well as editor of The Liberal Order and its Contestations [9] (Routledge 2018). He holds a summa-cum-laude PhD from the University of Tübingen.