Authors

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Political Analyst

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney