SUSAN GLASSER wanted to be a journalist from the age o
ten, when she helped her parents distribute copies o a
newspaper they founded in Washington, D.C. She began
working at The Washington Post in 1998 and eventually
spent four years as joint Moscow bureau chie for the
newspaper. A former editor in chie o Foreign Policy and
a current sta writer at The New Yorker, Glasser is a
co-author (with Peter Baker) o Kremlin Rising: Vladimir
Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution. In “Putin the
Great” (page 10), Glasser recounts the Russian presi-
dent’s unlikely rise and inimitable rule.As a young reporter in the Philippines in the 1980s,
SHEILA CORONEL worked for opposition newspapers
exposing abuses perpetrated by the regime o Ferdinand
Marcos. She went on to become one o Asia’s most
celebrated journalists, co-founding the Philippine Center
for Investigative Journalism in 1989. Now, Coronel is a
professor o journalism at Columbia University. In “The
Vigilante President” (page 36), she examines how as
president, Rodrigo Duterte has replicated the brutal,
lawless tactics he honed as mayor o Davao.ODD ARNE WESTAD’s interest in China began during a year
he spent as an undergraduate at Peking University, where
every morning he had to shout Maoist slogans with the
other students. Since then, Westad has become one o the
most distinguished historians o modern China and the
Cold War. He is the author o numerous books, including
The Global Cold War, which received the 2006 Bancroft
Prize. Now a professor at Yale University, in “The Sources
o Chinese Conduct” (page 86), Westad asks whether the
United States and China have entered a new Cold War.LISA ANDERSON is one o the United States’ foremost experts
on Egypt. From 2011 to 2015, she served as president o the
American University in Cairo; before that, she was dean o
Columbia’s School o International and Public A airs, as
well as chair o the Political Science Department. Anderson,
who has also taught at Harvard and Princeton, is now profes-
sor emerita o international relations at Columbia. In “An
American in Cairo” (page 210), she re¡ects on the journalist
Peter Hessler’s account o postrevolutionary Egypt.CONTRIBUTORS
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