Authors

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

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

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

Journalist, Sinologist

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in history

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia