Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a Professor of National Security Affairs and holds the Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security at the United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. He is the former Editor of The National Interest policy journal and previously was a senior fellow at the Nixon Center (now the Center for the National Interest). He holds non-residential fellowships with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is the author of numerous scholarly and policy books, articles, and chapters including recent books on US and Russian foreign policy. He holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.