Authors

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

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

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

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

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Research Group of Studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University