Authors

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

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

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

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

Journalist, Sinologist

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

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

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Ph.D. in History

Independent Analyst

PhD., HSE Professor

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

President of the Russian International Affairs Council