Authors

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

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

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Doctor of law, Professor, Director of the International Cooperation Center of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Master Student at MGIMO-University

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

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

MGIMO University

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)