Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Atlantic Council of the United States

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Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is professor of national security decision making at the U.S. Naval War College. He was the Editor of The National Interest and a Senior Fellow of Strategic Studies at The Nixon Center.

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.

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