Authors

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 Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

PhD., HSE Professor

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Ph.D. in History

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of law, Professor, Director of the International Cooperation Center of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Independent journalist

MGIMO University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in History

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

Journalist, Sinologist

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Independent Expert

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies