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Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States in the Arab Spring

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A conversation with Dr. Gregory Gause, Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz

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A conversation with Dr. Gregory Gause, Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont.

F. Gregory Gause, III is professor of political science at the University of Vermont and, since 2010, chair of the department.  He was previously on the faculty of Columbia University (1987-1995) and was Fellow for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (1993-94).  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, with a particular interest in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf.  He has published three books, the most recent of which is _The International Relations of the Persian Gulf_ (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and numerous journal articles.  He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1987.  He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo (1982-83) and at Middlebury College (1984).