Professor F. Gregory Gause III

F. Gregory Gause III is Professor of International Affairs and John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.  He served as Head of the School’s Department of International Affairs from 2014 to 2022 and is an affiliate of the School’s Albritton Center for Grand Strategy.  He is currently working at the Bush School's teaching site in Washington, D.C., where he is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  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.  From 2012 to 2015 he was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.  

His research focuses on the international politics of the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, and American foreign policy toward the region.  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, Journal of Democracy, 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).