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
JUN 2, 2021 • Article
Revisiting Fractured Globalization in Year 2 of COVID
As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Global Engagement Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev refelcts on the erosion of international solidarity. ...
MAY 21, 2021 • Podcast
The Doorstep: Analyzing Biden's New Approach to Sanctions, with CNAS's Rachel Ziemba
Sanctions are becoming an increasingly important part of the Biden administration's foreign policy toolkit. Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin discuss their ...
MAY 19, 2021 • Article
Vaccine Nationalism versus Vaccine Diplomacy
Health security is a fundamental "doorstep" issue in terms of the intersection of domestic and foreign policy. In this blog post, U.S. Global Engagement ...
MAY 7, 2021 • Podcast
The Doorstep: What Does Biden's "Omnipolicy" Mean for the U.S.? with Politico's Nahal Toosi
Nahal Toosi, foreign policy and national security writer at "Politico," returns to speak with Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin about how ...
APR 23, 2021 • Podcast
The Doorstep: Sustainability vs. Food Security in Our Oceans, with Duke University's Martin Smith
Dr. Martin Smith from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment joins "Doorstep" co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to discuss the health of our ...
APR 9, 2021 • Podcast
The Doorstep: The New Space Race with The Washington Post's Christian Davenport
"Washington Post" defense and space reporter Christian Davenport joins "Doorstep" co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to talk about commercialization and democratization in space. How ...
MAR 31, 2021 • Podcast
2034: A Novel of the Next World War, with Admiral James Stavridis & Elliott Ackerman
U.S.-China competition is one of the defining stories of this era, but it has stopped short of violence, for now. In the novel "2034," ...
MAR 30, 2021 • Article
Learning (Ethical) Lessons from the Greek Revolution
In this blog post, U.S. Global Engagement Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev reacts to an article from Paul Glastris in the "Washington Monthly." Nearly 200 years ...
MAR 26, 2021 • Podcast
The Doorstep: Assessing Trump's Legacy on Biden's Foreign Policy, with George Mason's Colin Dueck
The Biden-Harris administration made a host of foreign policy promises for their first 100 days in office. Leading the list was linking foreign and domestic policy ...
MAR 25, 2021 • Article
Grappling with Competing Ethical Demands: The New Biden Administration
Any leader faces competing ethical demands. In particular, policymakers must decide which ethical claims to preference and which to defer. In this blog post from ...