General Discussion

Good long article on him. He advised Orban in1998

From what I’ve read there’s some questions about his PhD - not that I know much about it. There wasn’t any distance between his mentor, adviser, and whoever awarded him his PhD. He could just regurgitate what they taught him and there of course agree with it.


Sebastian Gorka’s PhD adviser: ‘I would not call him an expert in terrorism’

“I would not call him an expert on terrorism,” said Stephen Sloan, a retired professor of political science who spent much of his career at the University of Oklahoma. Though he said Gorka is “knowledgeable” about terrorism matters, “his level of expertise does not match the level where he stands in the White House.”


Daniel Nexon, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has criticized Trump, recently reviewed Gorka’s 2007 PhD dissertation, which focused on post-Cold War terrorism, and described it as “inept.”

“It’s not remotely something that I would consider scholarship. It does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological requirements for a PhD in the US,” said Nexon, who added the paper referenced out-of-date information and reached unsubstantiated conclusions, among other issues.

Mia Bloom, a professor of communications and Middle East studies at Georgia State University, said she met Gorka at a conference where they had been asked to talk about the characteristics of ISIS. She said he was so ill-prepared that she and other participants wondered if they were witnessing some kind of practical joke.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/gorka-credentials