Authors

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal 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

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Independent Expert

Political Scientist

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

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 Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary