Authors

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

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

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

RIAC Member

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva