Authors

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

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

Independent Analyst

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

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

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS