Robert H. Donaldson is Trustees Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Tulsa. He was educated at Harvard University, and he is past president of both the University of Tulsa and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also has taught and held administrative positions at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Vanderbilt University and served as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations at the U.S. Department of State and as visiting research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. Professor Donaldson has written extensively on Soviet and Russian politics and foreign policy and has authored or co-authored five other books.

Vidya Nadkarni is Professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego, where she has taught since 1990. She was educated at St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru University-New Delhi, and the University of British Columbia. Professor Nadkarni teaches courses in the area of international relations and foreign policy, and her research interests center on the foreign policies of resurgent (Russia) and aspiring (China, India) global powers. She is the author of Strategic Partnerships in Asia: Balancing without Alliances (2010) and co-editor of Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries (2012) and Challenge and Change: Global Threats and the State in the 21st Century (2016).

1. Power, Polarity, and Personality

2. The Tsarist Roots of Russia's Foreign Policy

3. Soviet Foreign Policy: From Revolution to Cold War

4. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Cold War

5. Domestic Factors in the Making of Russia's Foreign Policy

6. Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union

7. Yeltsin Faces West: Aspirations and Obstacles

8. Russia, China, and India: A Strategic Triangle?

9. Russia and the "Non-West"

10. Putin's Quest for Great Power Restoration

11. Russia and the United States: A New Cold War?

12. Russia Openly Confronts the "Collective West"