Authors

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Political observer

PhD in political science

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS