Authors

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Professor, Department of World Economy and Global Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Research Group of Studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS