Authors

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Independent Analyst

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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