Authors

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

MGIMO-University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

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

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

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Expert on Development Assistace

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

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

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

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

Ph.D. in History

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

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Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor