Dimitri K. Simes

Dimitri K. Simes is President of The Nixon Center and Publisher of its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, The National Interest. Mr. Simes was selected to lead the Center by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states, as well as Western and Central Europe.

Before the Center was established, Mr. Simes served as Chairman of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was also a Senior Associate. Earlier, he worked at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.

Mr. Simes was born in Moscow and emigrated to the U.S. in 1973.

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Areas of Expertise

• U.S.-Russia Relations
• Russia and the Soviet Union
• U.S. Foreign Policy

Languages

• English, Russian 

Selected Publications:

"Play Ball With Russia"  Los Angeles Times March 22, 2007

"No more Middle East crusades"  Los Angeles Times January 09, 2007
 
"A Clarifying Moment" The Nixon Center August 22, 2006 

"Unrealists" The Nixon Center May 22, 2006

"America cannot have it both ways with Russia" Financial Times April 06, 2006

Testimony of Nixon Center President Dimitri Simes to the House International Relations Committee March 09, 2005

"What War Means" The Nixon Center November 01, 2001

"U.S. Needs Coherent Foreign Policy" The Nixon Center January 11, 2001