Authors

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Independent expert

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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