Authors

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

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

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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