Professor and Doctoral Supervisorat theSchool of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University;Deputy Director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Shandong University;Aresearcher at theResearchInstitute of Political Parties, the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, and the Institute of Contemporary Socialism, Shandong University. He was a visiting scholarinthe Department of International RelationsatSaint Petersburg UniversityinRussia. He is an evaluation expert forthe Academic DegreesandGraduateEducationunderthe Ministry of Education, an anonymous reviewerfor the Postdoctoral Science Foundationof the Ministry of Education, and an awardassessmentexpert for the Shandong Federation of Social Sciences.Hisprimaryresearchfocuses onRussian foreign strategy and great power relations in the Asia-Pacific region.He has published over 40 academic papers inrenownedprofessional journals such asContemporary Asia-PacificStudies, Northeast Asia Forum, Contemporary International Relations, Foreign Affairs Review, Russian,Russian, East European &Central Asian Studies, and International Studies. Many ofhispapers have been reprintedbyChineseSocial SciencesDigest,International Politics(a publication of Renmin Universityof China), and the ChineseSocial Sciences Net.