Trump’s ‘Business Diplomacy’ in the Caucasus

Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a 2024 Templeton Fellow and Director of the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he serves concurrently as a Senior Fellow in its Eurasia Program. He also serves as the Editor of Orbis. 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, having previously served as its Editor. The views expressed in this essay are his own.