Regular Contributors

NIKOLAS GVOSDEV

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is Editor of The National Interest and a Senior Fellow in Strategic Studies at The Nixon Center. 

Dr. Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, and developments in the Middle East.  He received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.

He is the author of six books, most recently the co-author of The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam.

He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

DIMITRI K. SIMES

Dimitri K. Simes is President of The Nixon Center, Co-Publisher of The National Interest, and Publisher of In the National Interest. An authority on U.S.-Russian relations and American foreign policy, he writes regularly in prominent newspapers and foreign policy journals. His most recent book is After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power.