Experts

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

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

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

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

Doctor of History, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Markets, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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