Authors

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

HSE University Student

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State 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

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

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

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

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

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

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

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