Roger E. Kanet is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He has also taught at the University of Kansas and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent publications include a number of titles published by Palgrave Macmillan, including; Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia: Foreign Policy in a Contested Area, 2015; Russia, Eurasian Integration and the New Geopolitics of Energy, 2015; 2012; Russia and Its Near Neighbours, 2012; Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century, 2010; Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia: The Return of the ‘Great Game’, 2010.