F. Gregory Gause, III is the John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair, professor of
international affairs and head of the International Affairs Department
at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M
University. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on
the politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Arabian
Peninsula and the Persian Gulf.
He was previously
on the faculties of the University of Vermont (1995-2014) and Columbia
University (1987-1995) and was Fellow for Arab and Islamic Studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1993-1994). During the
2009-10 academic year he was Kuwait Foundation Visiting Professor of
International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. In spring 2009 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the American
University in Kuwait. In spring 2010 he was a research fellow at the
King Faisal Center for Islamic Studies and Research in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.
His research focuses on the international politics of the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. He has published three books, most recently The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal, Security Studies, Washington Quarterly, National Interest, and in other journals and edited volumes. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1987 and his B.A. (summa cum laude) from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia in 1980. He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo (1982-83) and Middlebury College (1984).