UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, June 10:  “Thinking the Unthinkable: What if Putin Prevails?” A talk by Prof. Nikolas K. Gvosdev of the U.S.
Naval War College,
6:00 PM, Jamestown Philomenian Library, Jamestown

Professor Gvosdev is the aurhor or co-author of six books on U.S. foreign policy with an emphasis on Russian and Eastern European issues, national security, and the decision-making behind U.S. policy. His presenation will examin the implications of possible outcomes of the war and current peace negotiations.

The event is free and open to the public. (It is not sponsored by the Jamestown Library.)

About Prof. Gvosdev

Born in New York, Nikolas Gvosdev received his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He was the founding editor of the magazine, The National Interest, for which he remains a contributing editor. He has appeared as a foreign policy expert and analyst on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the CBC and Voice of America. He served as a senior fellow for strategic studies at the Nixon Center and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Washington University.

In 2008, he joined the U.S. Naval War College as professor of national security affairs holding the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security. He is also a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Among the books he has authored or co-authored are U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower; The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security; Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy: Translating Theory into Practice; and he is editor of the foreign policy journal Orbis.