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Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev is a
Russia
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American
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international relations scholar. He is currently professor of
national security
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studies at the U.S.
Naval War College
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and the former
Editor
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of the bi-monthly
foreign policy
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journal, ''
The National Interest
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''. He writes as a specialist on
US foreign policy
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as well as international
politics
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as they affect
Russia
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and its neighbors. He currently serves as editor of the journal Orbis.
Biography
Gvosdev received his
D.Phil.
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as a
Rhodes Scholar
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at
St Antony's College, Oxford
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.
He worked
executive editor
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and the
founding editor of ''
The National Interest
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''. In 2005 he appointed journal's now-defunct separate web edition, In The National Interest. Upon leaving the editorship in 2008, he was succeeded by
Justine Rosenthal; he remains associated with the journal as a contributing editor. He wrote many articles, essays, books. He has appeared as an analyst and a commentator on television and radio likes
CNN
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,
Fox News
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,
MSNBC
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,
National Public Radio
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C-SPAN
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's Washington Journal,
CBC and
Voice of America
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Gvosdev lived in
Washington, D.C.
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and served as senior fellow for strategic studies at the
Nixon Center, and as an adjunct professor at
Georgetown University
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and
George Washington University
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until 2007. In 2008 he moved to
Newport, Rhode Island
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and started teaching at the
Naval War College
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, where he is professor of national security affairs, holding the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security. He is married with one son.
Gvosdev is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, specifically as part of the Eurasia Program and the Program on National Security.
Along with
Dimitri K. Simes,
Anatol Lieven
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, and
John 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 traditional
realpolitik
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as espoused by
Henry Kissinger
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but nonetheless puts a stress on setting priorities. He has also been one of the strongest proponents for engagement with Russia and has tended to view
Vladimir Putin
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'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 with
Ray Takeyh
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Early life
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, he was an early skeptic of the proposition that the
spread of democracy in the Middle East would bring pro-American governments to power.
Contributing to the anthology ''Our 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."
Since 2020, he is 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.
Books
* 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)
References
External links
Gvosdev's former blog*
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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