Authors

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies