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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
sciencedirect.com | Mohammed Soliman |Nikolas K. Gvosdev |Dov S. Zakheim |Stephen Blank
This article reviews prominent definitions of global competency, explores the available (though limited) current evidence for its potential benefits, and offers recommendations for framing an understanding of the salience of global affairs education within theories of national security and related practice. The article identifies three potential pathways through which global competency benefits security.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
fpri.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Without energy abundance, no other initiatives—from re-industralization to climate mitigation—is feasibleA new national security map must identify areas of energy abundance and how to secure the resulting supply chainsEnergy can be part of American “integrative power” in the international arena“Energy is the new currency,” Derek Pew recently commented to me.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in what might prove to be the moment of decision since Russia initiated major combat operations inside Ukraine over 900 days ago. Numerous clocks are now ticking. Can Ukraine’s military hold its defensive lines in eastern Ukraine? Can the Russian military bring to bear concentrated force to crack Ukrainian defenses before the winter?
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
fpri.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
It was disappointing to see so little in-depth discussion among the US national security community at the recent 2024 Forum On China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) outside of the usual circles of Africanists and China specialists. The summit meeting provides a crucial roadmap as to how relationships with the states of the African continent—and within the Global South more broadly—need to be conducted.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
In the wake of the most recent Russian missile barrages against Ukraine, including the attack that struck the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, voices across Europe and North America have been raised to insist that no negotiations are possible with the Kremlin. However, while direct diplomatic talks are not on the table, it is a mistake to think that negotiations aren’t happening.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
carnegiecouncil.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev |Tatiana Serafin
U.S. states are increasingly enacting legislation to preemptively ban employers from forcing workers to be “microchipped,” which entails having a subdermal chip surgically inserted between one’s thumb and index finger. Internationally, more than 50,000 people have elected to receive microchip implants to serve as their swipe keys, credit cards, and means to instantaneously share social media information.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
fpri.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev
In 1973, writing in these pages, a trio of experts based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory—W.S. Bennett, R.R. Sandoval and R.G. Shreffler—were not convinced that detente would guarantee the security of the West against the Soviet Union. They sought to explore the types of defensive posture that the United States and its allies would need to wield to deter the USSR from believing it could initiate and prevail in a conflict.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
fpri.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev |Natalia Kopytnik
Revisiting Orbis Article: Elbridge Colby and Ian Brzezinski, “How NATO Manages the ‘Bear’ and the ‘Dragon,’” Orbis 65:1 (Winter 2021)This July, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will convene in Washington for a historic 75th anniversary summit—to take stock of the alliance’s work and to chart out its future. The decisions taken at this meeting will set the pace for the next chapter of the Euro-Atlantic partnership.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
carnegiecouncil.org | Nikolas K. Gvosdev |Tatiana Serafin
After four years of showcasing how global news impacts your daily life, The Doorstep podcast is signing off for the final time. For its last episode, co-hosts Tatiana Serafin and Nikolas Gvosdev were joined by New York Times reporter Peter Goodman to discuss his new book How the World Ran Out of Everything and how geopolitics is connected to the goods that literally end up on our doorstep.
