Authors

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

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 politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

RIAC Publishing Editor

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

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

RIAC member

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Independent Expert

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.