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Nikolas K. Gvosdev was a senior fellow for the U.S. Global Engagement Initiative (USGE) at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
He is also a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, the director of the Policy Analysis sub-course in the National Security Affairs Department, and the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in economic geography and national security.
Gvosdev was the editor of The National Interest and remains a senior editor at the magazine. In addition, he holds a non-residential senior fellowship at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a co-author of U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower (2015). He previously published Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors and Sectors (with Christopher Marsh) in 2013.
Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, and developments in the Middle East.
Featured Work
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SEP 29, 2020 • Podcast
Great Power Competition: What Role Does It Play in the 2020 Presidential Race? with Ali Wyne
Foreign policy may not be in the headlines when it comes to Biden vs. Trump, but U.S-China competition and questions about America's role in ...
![Donald Trump & Xi Jinping in Beijing, November 2017. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/more-photos-foreign-trip/">Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks</a>.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/09.25.20_trumpjinping_2023-04-10-044819_yidt.jpg?v=1719369125)
SEP 25, 2020 • Article
Searching for a Post-Pandemic Order
In this blog post, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev reflects on his recent webinar with Ali Wyne of the Atlantic Council. What will the role of ...
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SEP 25, 2020 • Podcast
The Doorstep: Financial Scandals, Trump vs. Biden, & What To Do About China
Hosted by award-winning professor of journalism Tatiana Serafin, with international relations scholar and Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev, The Doorstep is an innovative international ...
![H&M Asia flagship store, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H%26M_Flagship_store_in_HK_CWB_Exterior_201511.jpg>Wpcpey/Wikimedia</a> <a href=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en>(CC)</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/HMFlagship_featurebox_2023-04-10-044822_zbpv.jpg?v=1719361917)
SEP 21, 2020 • Article
Will Consumers Pay More To Not Source from China?
Retailer H&M will stop relying on Chinese garment factories and suppliers located in Xinjiang, over concerns about the use of Uyghers as forced labor. ...
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SEP 17, 2020 • Podcast
What is Asia to the U.S.? Connecting the Pacific Region to the American Doorstep, with Christopher Hill
In this wide-ranging conversation, Christopher Hill, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, among other nations, and Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev discuss U.S.-Asian ...
![Satellite view of California, September 9, 2020. Source: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GOES17_geocolor_Western_US_2020-09-09_1100AM.jpg>U.S. National Weather Service/Wikimedia (Public Domain)</a>.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/09.11.20_californiafires_2023-04-10-044829_gyru.jpg?v=1719365827)
SEP 11, 2020 • Article
Ecological Dimension of Foreign Policy
One of the emerging narratives about United States foreign policy is the use of climate change as a central organizing principle. How can ecological and ...
![COVID-19 samples being studied at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, June 2020.<br> CREDIT: <a href="https://www.army.mil/article/238434/usaisec_enabling_rapid_secure_communications_for_army_covid_19_research">U.S. Army photo by Mike Walters</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/09.03.20_vaccine_2023-04-10-044832_etpx.jpg?v=1719369280)
SEP 3, 2020 • Article
The Ethics of Non-Cooperation: COVID Vaccine Questions
The search for a COVID-19 vaccine is another example of how the pandemic has increased competition among nations, writes Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev. Will the ...
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AUG 25, 2020 • Article
Hard Choices on China
The USGE program has opened its second survey on U.S. foreign policy, and this one has an emphasis on assessing the relative ranking of ...
![Senator Kamala Harris in Las Vegas, April 2019. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/46823600565>Gage Skidmore</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/08.14.20_KamalaHarrisFeaturebox_2023-04-10-044838_vixe.jpg?v=1719369284)
AUG 14, 2020 • Article
Senator Kamala Harris & Foreign Policy Narratives
Joe Biden's selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate represents a series of shifts in terms of identity and experience. But her foreign ...
![Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) at the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands. <br>CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassythehague/41045807391">U.S. Embassy The Hague <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/GregoryMeeks_2023-04-10-044841_dxfd.jpg?v=1719379376)
JUL 28, 2020 • Article
House Democrats: Ethical Choices and Narratives
With Congressman Eliot Engel having lost his primary election in New York to Jamaal Bowman, the Democrats will need to find a new chair for ...