Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for the U.S. Global Engagement Initiative (USGE) at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
He is also a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, the director of the Policy Analysis sub-course in the National Security Affairs Department, and the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in economic geography and national security.
Gvosdev was the editor of The National Interest and remains a senior editor at the magazine. In addition, he holds a non-residential senior fellowship at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a co-author of U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower (2015). He previously published Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors and Sectors (with Christopher Marsh) in 2013.
Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, and developments in the Middle East.
Featured Work
MAR 22, 2019 • Article
America in Decline?
A Pew Research report says that many Americans view the country as being in long-term decline. What implications does this have for U.S. foreign ...
MAR 7, 2019 • Article
Climate Change and Competing Ethical Visions
The prevailing narrative in the fight against climate change is that we must adopt more cooperative efforts to help vulnerable populations. But what if, instead ...
FEB 19, 2019 • Article
Competing Bipartisan Consensuses?
Is there any bipartisan political consensus on U.S. foreign policy? Nikolas Gvosdev argues that voters want to see the United States involved in world ...
FEB 5, 2019 • Article
The New Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy
What does the new Congress think about U.S. foreign policy? Nikolas Gvosdev looks at how the Democratcs and Republicans will approach some important questions ...
JAN 22, 2019 • Article
Rischian Transactionalism
Transactionalism in U.S. foreign policy has a new proponent: James E. Risch, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
JAN 16, 2019 • Podcast
Ian Bremmer & Tom Nichols on Globalization, Populism, & American Politics
If populism is a reaction to a globalism that is viewed as unresponsive to the needs of citizens, can populism sustain any version of globalization? ...
JAN 3, 2019 • Article
Ethics and the Syria Withdrawal
Referencing an "Atlantic" article by Conor Fridersdorf, Nikolas Gvosdev goes over some important and overlooked ethical questions surrounding Trump's decision to withraw U.S. troops ...
DEC 13, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Foreign Policy After the Midterms, with Nikolas Gvosdev
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev and host Alex Woodson discuss the state of foreign policy after the midterm elections. How can newcomers like Alexandria ...
DEC 10, 2018 • Article
Warren and Haley: Post-Trump Foreign Policies?
What will U.S. foreign policy look like post-Trump? Elizabeth Warren and Nikki Haley recently offered up their first drafts of what this could look ...
DEC 5, 2018 • Article
Misconnecting with the U.S. Public: Narrative Collapse and U.S. Foreign Policy
For the past year, the U.S. Global Engagement program has focused its attention on the continuing strengths and weaknesses of the narratives that can ...