Authors

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee 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)

Political scientist, Moldova

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Independent Expert

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

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

PhD in History, independent journalist

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

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)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University