Nikolas Gvosdev

Nikolas Gvosdev

East-West: The Origins of a Crisis

A great deal of ink has been spilled over the last month about the proximate causes of the fighting in the Caucasus. Abkhaz, Georgians, Ossetians and Russians have all presented conflicting accounts of who fired first"€”with timelines that stretch back to the 18th century. Meanwhile, the debate ...

Gipper Anxiety”€”The Struggle Over What Would Reagan Do

How did it come to pass that the "€œconservative"€ position on foreign policy involves proclaiming the virtue of revolutionary upheaval around the world, worrying that the survival at freedom at home depends on the active spread of American-style democracy abroad, and arguing that the standard ...

Intelligence Failure”€”Why America Can”€™t Think Its Way Out of Iraq

The fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was marked by a deluge of retrospective commentary, much of it focused on the past: how we got into this conflict and how it has been conducted. Fine, it is always appropriate to assess lessons learned. But why and how we got into Iraq and what ...

Kosovo, Russia, and the Last Grasps of American Unipolarity

Kosovo is the latest irritant in what was already a deteriorating U.S.-Russia relationship. Disagreements over energy policy, Iran, a U.S. missile-defense system in central Europe, a further round of NATO expansion, as well as Russia's own domestic political and economic evolution have all ...


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