Authors

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

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

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

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

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

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

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs