F. Gregory Gause

"Oil and Democratic Prospects in the Persian Gulf States"

Thursday, May 24, 2007
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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F. Gregory Gause III is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont, and director of the University's Middle East Studies Program.  He was previously on the faculty of Columbia University (1987-95) and was Fellow for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1993-94). 

Gause’s research interests focus on the international politics of the Middle East, with a particular interest in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian/Arabian Gulf.  He has published two books -- Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994), and Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence (Columbia University Press, 1990).

His scholarly articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal, Washington Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, Review of International Studies and in other journals and edited volumes.  He has testified on Gulf issues before the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gause 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).  Before completing his Ph.D., he held research positions at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., and at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. 

F. Gregory Gause
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Vermont