Authors

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of 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

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

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

Journalist, Sinologist

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD in History, independent journalist

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

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

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)