Authors

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

University of Birmingham

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Independent expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent