Authors

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

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)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Independent Analyst

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member