Dr. John Calabrese

Dr. John Calabrese is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Displaced International (DI). A native of Brooklyn, New York, he earned a BA in English and Government from Georgetown University, followed by a Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Comparative and International Politics and a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

He has more than 30 years of college-level teaching experience, including appointments at Richmond College (UK) and Bowdoin College. Since 1998, he has taught U.S. Foreign Policy and supervised research projects in American University’s Washington Semester Program.

As part of AU’s Core Curriculum, he has also taught first-year seminars on Asia’s conflict flashpoints, security challenges in the Arab/Persian Gulf, and the legacies of the past in world politics. In spring 2010, he helped launch AU’s Graduate Gateway Program in International Affairs.

Dr. Calabrese is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI) and Book Review Editor of The Middle East Journal. He founded and directed MEI’s Middle East-Asia Project (MAP) and served as co-director of the EU-funded project Transatlantic Cooperation on Protracted Displacement.

He is the author of China’s Changing Relations with the Middle East and Revolutionary Horizons: Iran’s Regional Foreign Policy. He has also edited several books, including Transatlantic Cooperation on Protracted Displacement: Urgent Need and Unique Opportunity, and written numerous articles and book chapters on the international relations of the Middle East. His research focuses on the international relations of the Middle East, particularly the growing interdependence between the Gulf countries and South and East Asia.