Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Nikolas K. Gvosdev, a senior editor at The National Interest, is a professor of national-security studies at the U.S. Naval War College. The views expressed are entirely his own.


Essays

Politics

Triumph of the New Wilsonism

| 01.04.12

No national interest was cited as a rationale for America's Libya campaign; the action was justified solely on humanitarian grounds. This marks a fundamental break with past U.S. policy prescriptions for such military interventions.

Security

Symposium: Great Powers in Wonderland

| 02.29.08

Whither American hegemony? A glimpse of the multipolar world to come.

Economics

Revisiting Iran

| 03.01.07

The United States must find new and innovative ways to avoid the trap of a dead-end policy towards Iran. A roundtable discussion.

Security

Ahead of the Curve: Roadmap Revival?

| 02.15.07

The way forward is to concentrate on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which, because the many problems of the region are so interlinked, can create, in turn, momentum for dealing with the other regional disputes that feed it.

Security

Democrats, Irrelevant

| 11.10.06

In this election cycle, politicians eschew debate in favor of an all-things-to-all-people foreign policy posture with Democrats mostly offering a kinder, gentler version of the Bush strategy rather than any real alternatives.

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Reviews

FDR's Children

| 01.02.08

The Democratic rebirth of the virtue of FDR's realism.

Society

Return of the "Commie-Nazis"

| 04.19.07

Fascism did not die with Hitler and Mussolini in World War II. As recent events show, understanding what fascism means in the 21st century is a lesson worth learning. 

Security

Russia's Straight-Talk Express

| 06.01.04

Yevgeny Primakov hates to say "I told you so", but....

Commentary

Security

Ghosts of Iraq

| 05.20.13

Both sides of the Syria intervention debate are haunted by the last big war.

Global Governance

Immigration and Americanization

| 04.23.13

The Boston bombings resurrect an old debate about whether new entrants should be injected with U.S. cultural values.

Security

Syria, Israel, and the Trust Problem

| 04.01.13

Peace is unlikely in either place as long as parties feel it will be perilous.

Politics

Vladimir Putin's Many Identities

| 03.05.13

Russia's president is too complicated to typecast as a Bond villain or rugged outdoorsman.

Security

The Vengeance Doctrine

| 01.29.13

Syrians aren't about to attack America to avenge our nonintervention in their civil war.

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