Authors

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

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)

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies