Authors

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Independent Expert

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

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

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

PhD in History, independent journalist

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

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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)

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts