Authors

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Head of the Laboratory for International Trends in AI Development at HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University