Biography of Prof. Stephen Calleya,
Professor in International Relations
Director,
Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic
Studies
University of Malta
----March 2016
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Professor Stephen C. Calleya is Director and International Relations Associate Professor at the
Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta. He is also former
Rector’s Delegate for International Affairs at the University of Malta.
Professor Calleya is advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malta with the status of
Ambassador. He is also a member of The Today Public Policy Institute, a think tank in Malta
and a member of the Board of the European Documentation Research Centre, University of
Malta. Between 1996 and 2012, Prof. Calleya was the Project Manager of the EuroMediterranean Information and Training Seminars in Malta.
Professor Calleya has compiled several analytical articles in refereed journals and the
international synidicated press. His most recent publications in the refereed journals
Mediterranean Quarterly and European View have focused on the evolution of the EuroMediterranean Partnership that was launched in Barcelona in November 1995 and the impact
that this multilateral initiative is having on relations in the Mediterranean area. He has edited
two books on Economic Diplomacy in the Mediterranean in 1998 and 1999 respectively. In
the Summer 2011 issue of the Harvard Political Review his analysis is quoted in two lead
articles “Revolution & Democracy" by Catria O'Neill and "Been Here Before” by Allan
Bradley. His most recent article together with Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt is “How to Ride the
Revolutionary Arab Lion?”, published by the World Security Network in 2013.
Professor Calleya is also author of Navigating Regional Dynamics in the Post-Cold War
World, Patterns of Relations in the Mediterranean World, published by Dartmouth 1997. He is
also editor of the book Regionalism in the Post-Cold War World, published by Ashgate in
March 2000. In 2002 he published the book Looking Ahead, Malta’s Foreign Policy Agenda,
published by Miller Publishing House. In 2005 he published Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean
Relations, published by Routledge. His new book is entitled Security Challenges in the EuroMed Area in the 21st Century: Mare Nostrum, published by Routledge in 2013.
Professor Calleya is a permanent Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies
(ZEI), University of Bonn. He is also a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission
(EuroMeSCo) and he is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, (IISS).
In 2011 Professor Calleya was awarded The Merit of Order by the Federal Republic of
Germany and the Cross of the Officer of the Order of Isabel la Catolica by the Kingdom of
Spain. In 2015, he was awarded the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite by the
Republic of France.
As a guest analyst he has participated in numerous interviews including contributions to the
BBC World Service and in the Financial Times and articles in Asharq-Al-Awsat.