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
AUG 3, 2018 • Article
The Vision: Saving the Old or Building the New?
Senior fellow Nikolas Gvosdev unpacks why some scholars seek to save and preserve the U.S. role in the "liberal international order," and why others ...
JUL 26, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Helsinki's Aftermath & the "Montenegro Test"
The July 16 summit and press conference in Helsinki brought the words "treason" and "blackmail" into mainstream conversations about the Trump White House and put an ...
JUL 23, 2018 • Article
Is a Democratic "Blue Wave" Really Coming?
Grass-roots frustration within the Democratic Party could lead to the Left's own version of a Trump phenomenon, writes Nikolas Gvosdev in "The National Interest." What ...
JUL 19, 2018 • Article
The Montenegro Test
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, President Donald Trump seemed to agree with his host's assessment that it would not be worth American blood or ...
JUL 11, 2018 • Article
Stamford Grapples with American Engagement
At the World Affairs Forum in Stamford on July 10, participants discussed the topic of American engagement in global affairs. Can the United States still advance ...
JUL 6, 2018 • Article
Trump the Disrupter
Lawrence Freedman has authored a fascinating essay, "Authentic Trump versus the Trump Administration: Donald Trump as Foreign Policy Disrupter." It raises questions that have been ...
JUL 5, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Trump's "First-Order Questions" & NATO Defense Spending
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev looks at some basic questions Trump is asking about the post-Cold War alliance structures. Referencing a recent panel with ...
JUN 28, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Orbán's Hungary, the EU, & a "Values-Free Alliance"
As Viktor Orbán continues to enact illiberal policies in Hungary, some, including Harvard's Yascha Mounk, have called for the state to be expelled from ...
JUN 22, 2018 • Article
A "Values-Free" Trans-Atlantic Relationship?
Can an enduring and effective trans-Atlantic relationship be constructed and maintained without reference to commonly-shared values, in other words, can there be a "values-free" partnership?
JUN 13, 2018 • Podcast
Restoring Trust: How Can the American Public Regain its Confidence in its National Security Apparatus?
There is a huge divide in the way Americans assess U.S. foreign policy. Take for example, the June G7 meeting, which ended in a ...