Authors

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

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Independent journalist

Expert at the Middle East Institute

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Independent expert

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D., retired transdisciplinary consultant who writes on technology, power, global risks and future systems

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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