Authors

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Retired Vice-admiral

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Independent Expert

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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

Independent Expert

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

University of Birmingham