Authors

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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