G. DOUG DAVIS is an associate professor of political science at Troy University in Alabama. He is coauthor of Cultural Imperialism and the Decline of the Liberal Order: Russian and Western Soft Power in Eastern Europe.
MICHAEL O. SLOBODCHIKOFF is professor and chair in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for Eastern and Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Troy University. He is the coauthor of India as Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power.