Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal and an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His China-related publications include The Myth of China’s No Strings Attached Development Assistance: A Caribbean Case Study (Lexington Books, 2020), China’s International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2021), and China’s Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2022).Anna Kuteleva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia). Anna holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta (Canada) and an M.A. in World Politics from Shandong University (China). Over the last ten years, she has worked extensively in the realm of politicalscience and Chinese studies. Her research is located in a broad constructivist tradition of IR and focuses on the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations, with particular interests in energy politics, security, Russia, and China. Anna recently published her first book that examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.
