Dr. Bahgat is professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is the uthor of The Gulf Monarchies: New Economic and Political Realities (1997), The Future of the Gulf (1997), The Persian Gulf at the Dawn of the New Millennium (1999), American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea (2003), Israel and the Persian Gulf (2005), and Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East (2007).