Professor Gulshan Dietl has taught at the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from March 1979 to September 2011. Her area of interest includes theories of international relations, the Gulf region and West Asia/Middle East with a special focus on domestic development, foreign policies and security issues, Democratization, Political Islam and Energy. She has been affiliated with IDSA.  She was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, during 1993-94 and a Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998-99). She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir in 2004; at Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008); University of Southern Denmark in (2010) and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2012-13).

Professor Dietl has written extensively on the region for several books, journals and magazines like  International Studies, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, Strategic Analyses, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, GSP Occasional Papers Series, India Quarterly, etc., Some of her major works include Saudi Arabia: People, Politics and Policies (National Book Trust, 2006); Iran in the Emerging Greater Middle East (Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, 1999); India and the Global Game of Gas Pipelines (Taylor and Francis, 2016); Through Two Wars and Beyond: A Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council (1991, Lancer Books); The Dulles Era: America Enters West Asia (Lancer International, 1986). She is the editor of Democracy and Democratization in the Gulf (Shipra Publications, 2010), and co-editor of Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations (Shipra Publications, 2007).