Authors

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Independent Analyst

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation