Authors

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

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

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

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at MGIMO University; Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

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

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics