Authors

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of 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

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director for Science of the IOS RAS, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

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

Retired Vice-admiral

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

PIR Center Director

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

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