Introduction
GAYE CHRISTOFFERSEN is Resident Professor of International Politics, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Nanjing Center. She teaches courses on Asian energy security, Sino-Japanese relations, and Chinese border provinces’ relations with neighboring countries. Recent publications include: Editor of a book, Russia in the Indo-Pacific, under contract with Routledge; “Sino-Russian Local Relations: Heihe and Blagoveshchensk,” Asan Forum, December 10, 2019, http://www.theasanforum.org/tag/blagoveshchensk; “Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean Strategies for Northeast Asian Cross-Border Energy Connectivity,” Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies Journal (2019); “China and Global Energy Governance,” in The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (2018); “Northeast China and the Russian Far East: Positive Scenarios and Negative Scenarios,” (with Ivan Zuenko), in International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier: Sino-Russia Relations, North Korea, and Mongolia (2018); “The Continuing Search for a US-China-Japan Trilateral Cooperative Mechanism,” Nanjing University Asia-Pacific Review (2017); “Pathways to a Northeast Asian Energy Regime,” in China’s Rise and Changing Order in East Asia (2016); “The Role of China in Global Energy Governance,” China Perspectives no. 2 (2016).