Authors

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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)

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Political Scientist

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Research Group of Studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Research Fellow

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences