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 as outliers in the international political system. She is especially interested in issues of identity, and the significance of the increasingly asymmetrical disparity in power capabilities between the two states.