Geoffrey F. Gresh

Biography

Head of International Security Studies and Associate Professor at College of International Security Affairs (CISA),NDU,Washington, D.C. He also served as CISA’s Director of the South and Central Asia Security Studies Program. He is the recipient of Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship and also received a U.S. Fulbright-Hays Grant to teach international relations at Salahaddin University in Erbil, Iraq. He has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Istanbul, Turkey and a Presidential Scholarship at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Most recently, he was named as a U.S.-Japan Foundation Leadership Fellow, an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College in London, and a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Gulf Security and the U.S. Military: Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing.

Research Interest

Maritime Security & History, U.S. Foreign Policy, Islamic Banking & Finance, Base Politics and U.S. Military Basing Abroad.