Bassel Hajjar

Dr. Bassel Hassan Hajjar is a Lebanese military officer, academic, and strategic studies expert with over two decades of distinguished service in national security, geopolitics, and higher education. He served in the Lebanese Armed Forces from 2004 to 2025, attaining the rank of Colonel and leading the Regional Studies Department at the Center for Research and Strategic Studies. In this role, he directed strategic research on regional and global geopolitical dynamics, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and contributed policy-relevant analyses to senior military leadership. His career also includes command and security roles in infantry brigades, international peacekeeping and training missions in the United States, France, and Türkiye, and long-standing service as an instructor at the Lebanese Military Academy.

Parallel to his military career, Dr. Hajjar has built an extensive academic profile. He is a Graduate Assistant researcher at the American University of Beirut and serves as coordinator of the Joint Master’s Program in Strategic Studies between the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese University. A seasoned educator, he teaches geopolitics, political geography, military history, international relations, and human rights at leading institutions in Lebanon, France, and Qatar. He has supervised more than fifty graduate theses and evaluated over one hundred master’s and doctoral dissertations. Dr. Hajjar is also an active mediator, consultant, and certified trainer, contributing to policy dialogue, security governance, and conflict resolution across the Arab region.