Authors

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow