Authors

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Political Scientist

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

MA, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

Independent journalist

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow