Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome. Riccardo has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the United States and Europe (CUSE) at the Brookings Institution of Washington, DC. He is the author of Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis. Lead Groups and EU Foreign-Policy Making (Palgrave Macmillan). He tweets at @Ric_Alcaro