Alexander Lukin is director of the Institute for Political and Legal Studies and an associate professor of political science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He was educated at MGIMO and at Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate. Lukin previously worked at the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the Soviet Embassy to the People’s Republic of China, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Three Journeys through China (with A. Dikarev; Moscow, 1989) and The Political Culture of the Russian Democrats (Oxford University Press, 2000) as well as numerous articles on Russian and Chinese politics and Russian-Chinese relations.

• Chapter 1 From Mysterious Neighbor to Weak Ally; Chapter 2 Proletarian Brother or Revisionist Foe?; Chapter 3 A Genuine Threat or a Political Weapon?; Chapter 4 An Ally, a Foe, or a Model to Follow?; Chapter 5 An Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier or a Beautiful Island?; Chapter 6 China’s Image and Foreign Policy;