Authors

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

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

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

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

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

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)

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

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Political Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical 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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Independent expert

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member