Her current book project, China as a Risk Society, examines how transnational problems shape Chinese foreign relations with neighboring states and involve Chinese civil society in foreign policy. She is the author of Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (2001) and of numerous articles and book chapters on great power relations and regional development in Asia. Dr. Wishnick received a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She speaks Chinese, Russian, and French.