Authors

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

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

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

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

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Independent journalist and researcher

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

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS