Authors

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, 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

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member