Authors

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

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, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

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

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Political observer

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

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

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

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

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Professor at Middle Tennessee State 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

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center