Authors

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

INSOR Director for International Development

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

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

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

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

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS