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Stefano Recchia’s research and teaching interests center on the politics and ethics of military intervention, multilateral cooperation in security affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and transatlantic relations.

Recchia’s latest book, Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council (Yale University Press, 2025), investigates how the United States and other major powers can maximize their chances of securing UN approval for the use of force, when veto-wielding permanent members like Russia and China are fiercely opposed at the outset. His previous book, Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) shows that the nation’s top generals play an underappreciated role in steering U.S. intervention policy toward multilateral engagement when no vital American interests are threatened. Professor Recchia has also published several other books and many articles in leading scholarly journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, the Journal of Politics, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Security Studies.

His research has been funded by numerous bodies, including the Brookings Institution, Dickey Center at Dartmouth College, Fulbright Commission, Humboldt Foundation, Rotary Foundation, European Commission, and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Prior to joining ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½, Recchia was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge.