Understanding Russia: Nikolas K. Gvosdev, PhD

This lecture took place on May 24, 2024.
About the Speaker: Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ph.D.,
Professor, National Security Affairs
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He holds non-residential fellowships with Foreign Policy Research Institute (editor of “Orbis”) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (co-host of the “Doorstep” podcast). He is a member of Loisach Group, a collaboration between the Munich Security Conference and the Marshall Center to enhance U.S. and Germany’s security partnership. He is a contributing editor for The National Interest. He has taught at Baylor, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard Extension and Brown universities. From 2016-20, he held the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in economic geography and national security.
The views presented by the faculty or other guest speakers do not reflect official positions of the Naval War College, DON or DOD.

[@pitthistoryguy1301]

Russia / Putin's regime are described as a black box, a collection of characteristics with no insight on the how or why of their perspective. I attended many or Dr Joseph Wieczynski's Slavic History classes at Va Tech and am very interested.

[@massimo9533]

Long live to the american empire! Kind regards from the subject nation of Italy. Stay strong dear american masters.

[@justinmathews8507]

12 minutes in, and the lecture sounds like he has been reading off Russia's Wikipedia page.

[@sophiaplastun8972]

In terms of Russia we always should remember that we are talking about archaic outdated society and economy with traditional mind rooted neglect of individual rights and interest and clear genocidal practices toward culture, traditions, languages of national groups. Look at Russian map in terms of population distribution and roads infrastructure - you will notice how easily can this “country” fall apart