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Ph.D., Columbia University

Stefano Recchia is Distinguished Chair in international politics, director of studies, and director of the national security program at the Tower Center. Recchia’s scholarship centers 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. 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. Prior to joining ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½, Recchia was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge.

Education and Honors

• Ph.D., Columbia University, 2011 (with distinction)
• MSc., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2003

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Dickey Center at Dartmouth College, 2023

Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, 2022

Visiting Fellow, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2017

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Free University Berlin, 2014–15

Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, 2011–12

Fulbright Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, 2004–05