MICHAEL L. LEVIN is an Executive-in-Residence at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he has provided international consulting, research, and advising for both the school and its clients--multinational corporations. Levin has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Moscow, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C. He currently resides in Chicago, where he is at work on his next book, the first English-language biography of Yevgeny Primakov, one of Russia's foremost diplomats and politicians.