Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev is aRussian–American international relations scholar. He is currently^[when?] professor ofnational security studies at the U.S.Naval War College and the formerEditor of the bi-monthlyforeign policy journal,The National Interest.^[1] He writes as a specialist onUS foreign policy as well as internationalpolitics as they affectRussia and its neighbors. He currently serves as editor of the journal Orbis.

Gvosdev was born inNew York to a family descended ofWhite Emigres.^[2] Gvosdev received hisD.Phil. as aRhodes Scholar atSt Antony's College, Oxford.^[3]

He worked as theexecutive editor and thefounding editor ofThe National Interest. In 2005 he appointed the journal's now-defunct separate web edition,In The National Interest. Upon leaving the editorship in 2008, he was succeeded byJustine Rosenthal;^[4] he remains associated with the journal as a contributing editor.^[5] He has appeared as an analyst and a commentator on television and radio shows likeCNN,Fox News,MSNBC,National Public Radio,BBC,C-SPAN's Washington Journal,CBC andVoice of America.^[6]

Gvosdev lived inWashington, D.C. and served as senior fellow for strategic studies at theNixon Center, and as an adjunct professor atGeorgetown University andGeorge Washington University until 2007. In 2008 he moved toNewport, Rhode Island and started teaching at theNaval War College, where he is professor of national security affairs, holding the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security. He is married and has one son.^{[citation needed]}

Gvosdev is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, specifically as part of the Eurasia Program and the Program on National Security.^[7]

Along withDimitri K. Simes,Anatol Lieven, andJohn Hulsman, Gvosdev is seen as one of the proponents of the "new realism" in foreign policy—one that acknowledges a greater role for values than traditionalrealpolitik as espoused byHenry Kissinger, but nonetheless puts a stress on setting priorities. He has also been one of the strongest^{[citation needed]} proponents for engagement with Russia and has tended to viewVladimir Putin's government in a more positive light than most American commentators, characterizing his regime as "managed pluralism" rather than as an outright authoritarian state. Along withRay Takeyh, he was an early skeptic of the proposition that thespread of democracy in the Middle East would bring pro-American governments to power.^{[citation needed]}

Contributing to the anthologyOur American Story (2019), Gvosdev addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative and focused on a sense of community, writing, "Shared participation in and celebration of the unfinished and ongoing American experiment is the best way to create and cement the bonds of fellowship and citizenship among Americans."^[8]

Since 2020, he has been cohost of the Doorstep podcast, an initiative of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. This is part of an effort to connect U.S. foreign policy with domestic concerns, as well as to explore new narratives for U.S. global engagement.

• Imperial policies and perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819 (St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2000)
• Emperors and Elections: Reconciling the Orthodox Tradition with Modern Politics (Huntington, N.Y.: Troitsa Books, 2000)
• An examination of church-state relations in the Byzantine and Russian empires with an emphasis on ideology and models of interaction (Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 2001)
• The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam (Praeger, 2004)
• Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors and Sectors (CQ Press, 2013, with Christopher Marsh)
• US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy (Georgetown University Press, 2014, with Derek Reveron and Mackubin Owens);
• Communitarian Foreign Policy: Amitai Etzioni's Vision (Transaction Publishers, 2015)
• US foreign policy and defense strategy: the evolution of an incidental superpower (Georgetown University Press, 2015; with Derek S. Reveron and Mackubin Thomas Owens)
• The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security (Oxford University Press, 2018; with Derek S. Reveron; John A. Cloud)
• Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy: Translating Theory into Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2019; with Jessica D. Blankshain, and David A. Cooper)

• Gvosdev's former blog
• Appearances onC-SPAN

• American political scientists
• American magazine editors
• Russian emigrants to the United States
• American Rhodes Scholars
• Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford
• 1969 births
• Living people
• Georgetown University faculty
• Naval War College faculty
• George Washington University faculty
• Harvard Extension School faculty

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