Jeanne L. Wilson

Jeanne L. Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College, Norton, MA. Previously, she was the Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of Russian Studies at Wheaton. Her research interests are focused on aspects of the Russian-Chinese relationship with an emphasis on their convergent status in the international political system. She is especially interested in issues of identity and the significance of the increasingly asymmetric disparity in power relations between the two states. Her most recent publication examined the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Russian-Chinese relations (in Michael Slobodchikkoff, Breaking Point: Russia, Ukraine and the Future of International Relations: Rowman and Littlefield 2024). Her next immediate project is an assessment of Russia and China as outliers in the international system, with a comparative assessment of their substantive visions for an alternative order. A future longer term goal is to examine Chinese interactions with the post-Soviet states both as an empirical description as well as an analysis of its political significance for the Russian-Chinese relationship.