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In The National Interest

Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is Senior Editor of The National Interest and an adjunct Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center.  He is currently a professor of national-security studies at the U.S. Naval War College.


 
Dr. Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, and developments in the Middle East.  He received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.
 
Dr. Gvosdev is the author of six books, and most recently the co-author of The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

Areas of expertise:

  • U.S. foreign policy
  • Russian and Eurasian affairs
  • Balkan affairs
  • U.S. policy toward the Greater Middle East 

Languages

  • Russian 

Selected Publications 

"Democrats, Irrelevant" The National Interest November/December 2006
 
"War Was a Catalyst, but for What?" Washington Monthly, May 2005
 
"Defining Victory" The National Interest Fall 2005
 
"On Liberty" The National Interest Spring 2005

"Pragmatism in the Midst of Iranian Turmoil (PDF)" Washington Quarterly Autumn 2004

Testimony before the House International Relations Committee
"US-Russia Relations in Putin’s Second Term" March 18, 2004 
 
"Do Terrorist Networks Need a Home?" Washington Quarterly Summer 2002
 



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