Alexander LukinAlexander Lukin is Academic Head at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS), Head of the Department of International Relations at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE Universiy), and Leading Researcher at the Institute of International Affairs at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) in Moscow, Russia. He also holds positions of Yunshan Chair Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and High-Level Expert at Shaoguan University in China. Dr. Lukin received his first degree from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1984, a DPhil in Politics from Oxford University in 1997, a doctorate in history from the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow in 2007, and a continuing education degree in theology from St. Tikhon's Orthodox University in 2013. He has worked at the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the Soviet Embassy to the PRC, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1990 to 1993, he served as an elected deputy of the Moscow City Soviet (Council) where he chaired the Sub-Committee for Inter-Regional Relations. He wrote The Political Culture of the Russian Democrats (Oxford University Press, 2000), The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia's Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations since the Eighteenth Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), China and Russia: The New Rapprochement (Polity Press, 2018), as well as numerous articles and policy papers on Russian and Chinese politics and foreign policy. Dr. Lukin has also written on the international situation in East Asia, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Russian-Chinese relations. His works have been published in Russia, China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries. Read More Read Less