Authors

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

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 Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

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

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Political Scientist

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University