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Nikolas Gvosdev
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Someone who follows geopolitical and geo-economic trends and studies how national security decisions get made. All comments are personal opinions and do not reflect any official/institutional views.
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Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev is a Russian–American international relations scholar. He is currently professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College and the former Editor of the bi-monthly foreign policy journal, The National Interest. He writes as a specialist on US foreign policy as well as international politics as they affect Russia and its neighbors. He currently serves as editor of the journal Orbis. .. more

Political science 69%
Sociology 14%
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Is an organizing principle for U.S. national security emerging around the frame of #business_diplomacy ( #commercial_diplomacy ) with a #geotechnology focus? Some analysis in #BakuDialogues and @fpri.bsky.social (links in comments).

2025 Rhode Island Spiritual Music Festival: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLP...
Spiritual Music Festival 2025 Sts Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church
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Expecting the latest proposals for Donbass to be rejected by Moscow? How Putin prolonged the talks with Abe over the Kurils may give a sense of the Kremlin's "not saying no outright" strategy ... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Clients have asked us to provide our assessment of the newest proposals for a Ukraine-Russia settlement based on a withdrawal of Russian and Ukrainian forces from Donbass and creation of a free… | Sou...
Clients have asked us to provide our assessment of the newest proposals for a Ukraine-Russia settlement based on a withdrawal of Russian and Ukrainian forces from Donbass and creation of a free econom...
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Interesting conversation on contested logistics, growing role of the private sector, changes in procurement ... www.linkedin.com/posts/nikola...
John Gastright: New ISOA Chairman, INDOPACOM contested logistics, and the evolution of Amentum | Nikolas Gvosdev
I appreciate that Jake Frazer in his conversation with John Gastright discussed how the environment is changing, and more importantly the growing and necessary role of the private sector in assuring l...
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More on #business_diplomacy … question is whether this is lomited to soecific personalities and situations or becomes more of the norm … www.linkedin.com/posts/nikola...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA | Nikolas Gvosdev
Wanted to reconnect this discussion to Council on Foreign Relations Ray Takeyh's recent Foreign Affairs Magazine piece on #POTUS transactional diplomacy in the Middle East. It is here that breaking aw...
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An interesting read as I teach the uses of #leaking in my classes ... www.linkedin.com/posts/nikola...
This is a great discussion of the use of leaks and narrative framing … | Nikolas Gvosdev
This is a great discussion of the use of leaks and narrative framing …
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Also that alongside government the private sector offers all sort of analytical/intelligence services …
Tracks with a recent roundtable I attended where difficulties of "groking" reality that holding formal titles (and piece notes we still don't have an assistant secretary of state for Europe) matters less than handshake arrangements. Role of #MBS here is underreported aspect. 2/

This is what I was trying to examine in my recent essay for @IDD_ADA #BakuDialogues. 4/ bakudialogues.idd.az/media/2025/1...
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