Colonel (Retired) Robert E. Hamilton, PhD, is a national security professional and scholar with 30+ years of combined experience in government and academia. During a 30-year career in the U.S Army, he served overseas in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Germany, Belarus, Qatar, Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, Pakistan and Kuwait. Currently Robert is a Senior Fellow at Delphi Global Research Center. He was also a Senior Fellow and Head of Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program, and for six years he served as a professor at the U.S. Army War College. He is the author of the book “China-Russia Relations: The Dance of the Dragon and the Bear (2024, Springer)”.