Authors

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst at CNA Corporation

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

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

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

Former senior Australian diplomat

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University