Authors

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of History, RIAC member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

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

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Analyst

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra