Recent strategic reviews of US security priorities have projected that our national interests will shift toward Asia over the coming decades. Russia's role in the region will obviously have a significant impact, and could further or impede the pursuit of US interests. How are the foreign policies of Russia vis-à-vis Asia different from those of the Soviet era? What are Putin's foreign policy objectives in Asia? Are Sino-Russian relationships likely to be collaborative or competitive? Will Russia's Cold War alliance with India continue or falter? Professor Robert Donaldson will address these questions as he discusses Russia's role in Asian security.

Robert H. Donaldson is Trustees' Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa, where he served as President from 1990-96. Previously (1984-90) Dr. Donaldson was President of Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey's largest private university, and Provost of Lehman College of the City University of New York (1981-84). Dr. Donaldson has written extensively on Moscow's policies in the Third World, with special emphasis on Asia. His latest book, with Joseph Nogee, is The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Donaldson is also Director of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Committees on Foreign Relations.