Authors

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

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the Russian International Affairs Council

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Research Group of Studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

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

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

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)

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation