Authors

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)