Contributors
Alexei D. VOSKRESSENSKI is professor and head at the Department ofAsian and African Studies, Moscow State Institute of International
Relations (MGIMO-University), Russia. He is the author of Russia andChina: A Theory of Inter-State Relations (2003) and The Greater Eastern
Asia: World Politics and Energy Security (2006, in Russian).
Neville MAXWELL is visiting fellow at the Contemporary China Centre,
Australian National University. He is the author of India’s China War(1970) and has published extensively on border security issues, mostrecently “Conflicts and Settlements: China’s Approach to TerritorialIssues,” Economic and Political Weekly (2006).
Dmitri RYABUSHKIN is reader at the Tavrida National University,Ukraine. He is the author of Myths of Damanskii (2004, in Russian).
SU Fenglin is director of the Institute of Russian (Siberian) Studies atHeilongjiang Academy of Social Science, China. He is author of A Studyon the History of the Early Sino-Russian Relations (1999, in Chinese) andChina and Russia: Cultural History before the mid-19th Century (2000, inRussian).
JIA Qingguo is professor and associate dean of the School ofInternational Studies of Peking University, China. He is the author of“Traditional Values and Democratization: the Case of China”（2006）
and “One Administration, Two Voices: US China Policy during Bush’sFirst Term” (2005).
KATO Mihoko is research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science. She is the author of “The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union /Russia and Asia-Pacific Regionalism” (2005, in Japanese).

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G. V. C. NAIDU is senior fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies andAnalyses, New Delhi, India. He is author and editor, respectively, ofChanging Security Dynamic in Eastern Asia (2005) and India-Japan:Partnership for Peace and Security in Asia (2006).
HA Yongchool is professor of International Relations at Seoul National
University, Korea, and president of the Korean Association ofInternational Studies. He is the author of “Late Industrialization, the State,and Social Changes: The Emergence of Neofamilism in South Korea”(2007).
SHIN Beomshik is assistant professor of International Relations at theUniversity of Incheon, Korea, and director of foreign relations of theKorean Association of Slavic Studies. He is the editor of Challenges ofEurasia and International Relations in the 21st Century (2006, in Korean).
His articles include “Changes and Prospect of Russo-Chinese Security andMilitary Cooperation” (2007, in Korean).
FENG Shaolei is professor and dean of School of Advanced Internationaland Area Studies, East China Normal University. He is the author ofPutin’s Diplomacy (2004, in Chinese) and “Chinese-Russian Strategic
Relations: The Central Asian Angel” (2007).
Sergey VRADIY is senior research fellow of the Institute of History,
Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Vladivostok,Russia. He is author of numerous articles on China, among them “To theOrigins of the Ideas of ‘Learning of Overseas Affairs’ in China” (2002)
and “Biography in the Tradition of Chinese Historiography” (2006, inRussian).
YOKOTE Shinji is professor of Russian studies at Keio University, Japan.
He is co-editor of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, vol. 1(2005) and vol. 2 (2007) and author of Russia in East Asia (2004, inJapanese).

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