The Future of China-Russia Relations

Contributors

James Bellacqua is an Asia Security Analyst at the CNA Corporation. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Lewis and Clark College in Portland , Oregon, and has an MBA from American University. Prior to joining CNA, Bellacqua served as a senior Chinese media analyst and linguist for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service examining PRC media treatment of Chinese domestic politics and legal affairs. Having lived, worked, studied, and traveled extensively throughout the People’s Republic of China for several years, he speaks, reads, and writes Mandarin Chinese fluently. Bellacqua is also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies and has studied Mandarin Chinese in Guangxi and Heilongjiang provinces. His numerous research interests include Chinese foreign policy, internal security, and media reform. Leszek Buszynski is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Relations at the International University of Japan. He was also Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Strategic Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. Before then he was a lecturer and later senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has published widely on Asia-Pacific security issues and has focused particularly on Russia’s relations with the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of Asia-Pacific Security: Values and Identity (Routledge, 2004) and more recently has published various articles in refereed journals on Russia’s policy toward China and Japan, and also toward Southeast Asia. Erica S. Downs is the China Energy fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. She previously worked as an energy Contributors 334 Contributors analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, a political analyst at the RAND Corporation, and a lecturer at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China. She earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Princeton University and a B.S. from Georgetown University. Her current research and writing focuses on the Sino-Russian energy relationship, institutional change in China’s energy bureaucracy , and the relationship between the Chinese party-state and China’s national oil companies. Andrew C. Kuchins is Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, Kuchins was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington, D.C., directing its Russian and Eurasian Program. Kuchins also directed the Carnegie Moscow Center in Russia during his time at CEIP. He conducts research and writes widely on Russian foreign and security policy and is working on a book entitled China and Russia: Strategic Partners, Allies, or Competitors? Kuchins is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Prior to his time at the Endowment, Kuchins served from 1997 to 2000 as Associate Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. From 1993 to 1997, he was a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where he developed and managed a grant-making program to support scientists and researchers in the former Soviet Union. From 1989 to 1993, he was Executive Director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Richard Lotspeich is associate professor of economics at Indiana State University . He holds an undergraduate degree in economics with a minor in Russian from Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) and a Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque ). He began his working career in the Systems Analysis Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and later engaged in postdoctoral studies on the Soviet economy at Indiana University. He has twice been awarded Fulbright lecturing fellowships for Russian universities in St. Petersburg, and was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute for Russian Studies (part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.) in 1995 and again in 2005. His research interests focus on environmental policy, transitional economies, the economics of conflict, and the interface between criminality and economics. Contributors 335 Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and a B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in...