In May 1964, Badeau was named as director of Columbia University's Near and Middle East Institute and began work as adjunct professor of international relations.
He continued to be a professional lecturer at Georgetown University until 1974, and was a founding fellow of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
[8] After the Assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Badeau informed President Lyndon B. Johnson that he wished to return to academic life.
[2] Badeau's various published works included "East and West of Suez" (1941) and "The Emergence of Modern Egypt" (1953), both for the Foreign Policy Association; and "The Lands Between" (Friendship Press, 1958) and "The American Approach to the Arab World" (Harper and Row, 1967), for the Council on Foreign Relations.
[9] He also wrote about the background of Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War for the Academy of Political Science.