Dr. Bahgat is a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is the author of American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea (2003), Israel and the Persian Gulf (2005), Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East (2007), The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds (2010), and Energy Security: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2011).