Nikolas Gvosdev
Nikolas Gvosdev is a professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College, a senior editor at The National Interest, and a blogger at Ethics & International Affairs. The views expressed are his own.
Nikolas Gvosdev's Latest Posts
The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy
Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.
“Homo Economicus” and the Sanctions Tax
Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the “sanctions tax” into their broader calculations of economic well-being?
Afghanistan and the Ethics of Triage
What would a democracy triage approach to Afghanistan look like?
The Implications of “The World is Not a Global Community”
“The world is not a ‘global community.’” Last year, in attempting to discern the ethical and philosophical bases of candidate Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs, the first point I made was this: “There is no such thing as an international community. The “buck” stops with the nation-state and the nation-state decides what commitments it […]
The Great Divide: Democracy’s Future
I had the opportunity this past Saturday to take part in a day-long conference, “The Great Divide: Democracy’s Future” (sponsored by American University’s School of Public Affairs Graduate Student Council and the Graduate Leadership Council.) This symposium, in many ways, picked right up from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs fall 2016 event […]
Democracy Promotion and a Trump Administration
What happens to the democracy promotion enterprise in a Trump administration? The President’s comments that under his watch the United States will not be seeking to impose its system or values on other countries suggests that the spread and strengthening of democratic systems around the world will not be a top priority and in fact […]
What Follows the “Post-Cold War” Era?
Is the age of (reactionary) nationalism to follow the optimism that the end of the cold war would bring about a global community?
