# Nikolas Gvosdev > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nikolas_Gvosdev > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nikolas_Gvosdev.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Gvosdev > Source revision: 1330652016 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev''' is a [Russia](/source/Russia)n–[American](/source/United_States) international relations scholar. He is currently{{When|date=September 2019}} professor of [national security](/source/national_security) studies at the U.S. [Naval War College](/source/Naval_War_College) and the former [editor](/source/Editing) of the bi-monthly [foreign policy](/source/foreign_policy) journal, ''[The National Interest](/source/The_National_Interest)''.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnwc.edu/nikolasgvosdev|title=U.S. Naval War College {{!}} Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ph.D.|website=usnwc.edu|access-date=2016-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203234817/https://www.usnwc.edu/NikolasGvosdev|archive-date=2015-02-03|url-status=dead}} He writes as a specialist on [US foreign policy](/source/US_foreign_policy) as well as international [politics](/source/politics) as they affect [Russia](/source/Russia) and its neighbors. He currently serves as editor of the journal Orbis. == Biography == Gvosdev was born in [New York](/source/New_York_State) to a family descended of [White Emigres](/source/White_Emigres).{{cite web | url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/the-doorstep/20210721-heartbeat-of-iran-tara-kangarlou | title=The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices of a Country and Its People, with Tara Kangarlou }} Gvosdev received his [D.Phil.](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) as a [Rhodes Scholar](/source/Rhodes_Scholar) at [St Antony's College, Oxford](/source/St_Antony's_College%2C_Oxford).{{cite web|url=https://www.fpri.org/contributor/nikolas-gvosdev-2/|title=Nikolas K. Gvosdev - Foreign Policy Research Institute|publisher=}} He worked as the [executive editor](/source/executive_editor) and the [founding editor](/source/founding_editor) of ''[The National Interest](/source/The_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 by [Justine Rosenthal](/source/Justine_Rosenthal);{{cite web |title='The National Interest' Appoints Justine Rosenthal as New Czar |url=http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/05/the_national_in/ |access-date=January 17, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619071032/http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/05/the_national_in/ |archivedate=June 19, 2009 }} he remains associated with the journal as a contributing editor.{{cite web|url=https://nationalinterest.org/|title=The National Interest|website=The National Interest}} He has appeared as an analyst and a commentator on television and radio shows like [CNN](/source/CNN), [Fox News](/source/Fox_News), [MSNBC](/source/MSNBC), [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio), [BBC](/source/BBC), [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)'s Washington Journal, [CBC](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) and [Voice of America](/source/Voice_of_America). {{cite web |url= https://www.usnwc.edu/NikolasGvosdev |title= U.S Naval War College;Faculty;Profile |access-date= 2015-02-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150203234817/https://www.usnwc.edu/NikolasGvosdev |archive-date= 2015-02-03 |url-status= dead }} Gvosdev lived in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington_DC) and served as senior fellow for strategic studies at the [Nixon Center](/source/Nixon_Center), and as an adjunct professor at [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) and [George Washington University](/source/George_Washington_University) until 2007. In 2008 he moved to [Newport, Rhode Island](/source/Newport%2C_Rhode_Island) and started teaching at the [Naval War College](/source/Naval_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|date=September 2019}} Gvosdev is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, specifically as part of the Eurasia Program and the Program on National Security.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fpri.org/contributor/nikolas-gvosdev-2/|title=Nikolas K. Gvosdev - Foreign Policy Research Institute|website=fpri.org/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-15}} Along with [Dimitri K. Simes](/source/Dimitri_K._Simes), [Anatol Lieven](/source/Anatol_Lieven), and [John Hulsman](/source/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](/source/realpolitik) as espoused by [Henry Kissinger](/source/Henry_Kissinger), but nonetheless puts a stress on setting priorities. He has also been one of the strongest{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} proponents for engagement with Russia and has tended to view [Vladimir Putin](/source/Vladimir_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 with [Ray Takeyh](/source/Ray_Takeyh), he was an early skeptic of the proposition that the [spread of democracy](/source/Democracy_promotion) in the Middle East would bring pro-American governments to power.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} 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."{{cite book |editor-last1=Claybourn |editor-first1=Joshua |editor-link1=Joshua Claybourn |title=Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative |date=2019 |publisher=Potomac Books |location=Lincoln, NE |isbn=978-1640121706 |pages=100–115 }} 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. == 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== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://washingtonrealist.blogspot.com/ Gvosdev's former blog] *{{C-SPAN|92408}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gvosdev, Nikolas}} Category:American political scientists Category:American magazine editors Category:Russian emigrants to the United States Category:American Rhodes Scholars Category:Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Georgetown University faculty Category:Naval War College faculty Category:George Washington University faculty Category:Harvard Extension School faculty --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nikolas Gvosdev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Gvosdev) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Gvosdev?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.