Authors

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Independent Analyst

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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

PhD in Political Science

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Political Scientist

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina