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Westminster College Speaker to Investigates Instability in Middle East

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Posted on Thursday, February 1, 2001

Dr. F. Gregory Gause III, director of the Middle East studies program at the University of Vermont, will investigate "The Causes of War and Instability in the Middle East" Monday, Feb. 12, in Phillips Lecture Hall (located in the Hoyt Science Resources Center room G-12) at 4 p.m. as part of the Westminster College Diversity Symposium.

Gause will discuss several current sources of problems in the Middle East, including Saddam Hussein and the Arab-Israeli struggle. He will also talk about the American perceptions of the region, especially of the Arab and Islamic culture and behavior.

His 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, and Saudi-Yemeni Relations: domestic Structures and Foreign Influence. Gause's articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Middle East Journal, Washington Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, and Review of International Studies.

Gause has testified on Gulf issues before the Committee on International Relations in the United States House of Representatives, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio commenting on Middle East issues.

In addition to studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo and Middlebury College, he earned his undergraduate degree from St. Joseph's University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

The Diversity symposium is designed to help students and the community acquire a knowledge and appreciation of differences among people, human cultures, and the natural world.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Andrea Grove, assistant professor of political science at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7254.