Authors

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

University of Birmingham

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent expert

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation