Authors

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

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

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Journalist, Sinologist

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Political scientist, Moldova

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America