Experts

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Independent Analyst

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight