Riccardo Alcaro

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Competition and Political Risk Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). His research focuses on transatlantic relations, particularly US and European policies towards Europe’s neighbourhood. 

Riccardo was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and is a fellow of the pan-European European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS) programme. He coordinated TRANSWORLD, a project on transatlantic relations and global governance funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, and JOINT, a project on European foreign and security policy funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. 

His publications include Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and, co-authored with Pol Bargués, Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy: Relational Power Europe (Routledge, 2025). He also edited The Liberal Order and its Contestations (Routledge, 2018). 

Riccardo holds a PhD, awarded summa cum laude, from the University of Tübingen.