Authors

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

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

Independent Analyst

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in history

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Independent expert

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

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

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE