Authors

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

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

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

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

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran