Gawdat Bahgat

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Gawdat Bahgat
Born1960
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Cairo University
(B.A. Political Science, 1977)
American University in Cairo
(M.A. Middle Eastern Studies, 1985)
Florida State University
(Ph.D. Political Science, 1991)
Scientific career
Fields Petroleum politics,
energy security,
terrorism,
fundamentalism,
nuclear proliferation,
American foreign policy,
Middle East,
Caspian Sea
InstitutionsFlorida State University (1991–92)
University of North Florida (1992–95)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1995–2009)
National Defense University (2010–)

Gawdat Bahgat (born c. 1960s) is a professor of political science at the National Defense University. Bahgat was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and earned degrees at Cairo University and American University in Cairo. He emigrated to the United States and earned his Ph.D at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1991.

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Career

Bahgat served as a professor of political science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2009 where he also was the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2006–07 he earned the Distinguished Faculty Award for research. [1]

Bahgat has published several books, chapters, and articles on various subjects including oil politics, nuclear proliferation and the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea regions. His works have been translated into several foreign languages. [2] [3]

In 2010, Bahgat began teaching at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. [1]

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References

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