Authors

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Expert at the Middle East Institute

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

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

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

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

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