Authors

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Journalist, Sinologist

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert