Contributors

Pami Aalto

Professor and Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on European Politics and European-Russian Relations, University of Tampere, Finland; Team Leader, Diversification of the Economy research cluster, Centre of Excellence on Choices of Russian Modernization, Academy of Finland

Rawi Abdelal

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Marat Abdyldaev

Representative of the National Institute of Strategic Initiatives of the Kyrgyz Republic

Umid Abidkhadjaev

Director, Institute for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research under the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Taisuke Abiru

Senior Fellow, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Amal Abou Zeid

Adviser to the President of Lebanon

Akbope Abylkasimova

Member of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan

Anatoly Adamishin

President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Ambassador

Alexandre Adler

Chief columnist (foreign policy) at le Figaro

Mark Adomanis

MA/MBA candidate at the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania

Margarita Afonasova

Professor of Economics at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics

Sergey Afontsev

Dr. of Science (Economics), Deputy Director for Research and Head of the Economic Theory Department at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Aydar R. Aganin

Director of Rusya al-Yaum News Channel

Vera Ageeva

Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Political Science, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

Masahiro Akiyama

Chairman, Society of Security and Diplomatic Policy Studies (SSDP). President, Akiyama Associates

Alexander Aksenyonok

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Association of Russian Diplomats

Iskander Akylbaev

Executive Director of the Kazakhstan Council on Foreign Relations ( CASMO)

Shehab Al Makahleh

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova)

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ali Al-Akhmad

Syrian politician and public figure

Abdallah Al-Dardari

Deputy Prime Minister of Syria (2005–2011), Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Faraj

Chairman Assistant for Scientific Affairs of the Center for Research & Knowledge Intercommunication, Saudi Arabia

Ebtesam Al-Ketbi

President, Emirates Policy Centre (UAE)

Saleh Muhammad Al-Khathlan

Professor of Political Science and Senior Advisor at the Gulf Research Center
Saudi Arabia

Omar Al-Ubaydli

Economist at George Mason University, USA.

Abdul Rahman Alageli

Associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Riccardo Alcaro

Research Coordinator and Head of Global Actors at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome

Shafi Aldamer

Head of the Department of Global and Social Studies, King Fahd University of Oil and Minerals.

Sergey Aleksashenko

Macroeconomic Research Director, State University – Higher School of Economics; Board member, Aeroflot-Russian Airlines

Elena Alekseenkova

Program Manager at Russian International Affairs Council, Research Fellow of the Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies (IIS), MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia

Alikber Alikberov

Head of the Centre for Central Asian, Caucasian and Volga-Urals Studies in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Rashid Alimov

Professor at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and at the Taihe Institute (China), Doctor of Political Sciences, SCO Secretary-General (2016–2018)

Nailya Almukhamedova

Director of the Parasat Institute for System Research

Ibrahim Almuttaqi

Senior Officer, Executive Support Division at The ASEAN Secretariat.

Roberta Alonzi

PhD, Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

Yossi Alpher

Former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and former co-editor of bitterlemons.net

Hüseyin Alptekin

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Şehir University, Researcher at SETA Strategy Studies.

Jon Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Director of Middle East Program at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Hakan Altinay

President of the Global Civics Academy, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, global ethics fellow at the Carnegie Council, and world fellow at Yale University

Ticiana Alvares

Director of Instituto da Brasilidade. Researcher at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), International Political Economy Program (PEPI -UFRJ)

Godwin Gonde Amani

A Lecturer at Dr Salim Ahmed Salim Centre for Foreign Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East Africa Cooperation, Tanzania.

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti

Research Fellow, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

Bakhtiar Amin

Kurdish Iraqi politician who was the Human Rights Minister in the Iraqi Interim Government from June 2004 to May 2005

Pawan Anand

Maj Gen (Dr),Distinguished Fellow with the USI of India, and a Mentor at the National Defence College.

Yelena Ananyeva

PhD in Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Pavel Andreev

Founder, Center for Global Strategies and Communications; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency; Member, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

Andreas Andrianopoulos

Director of the Institute of Diplomacy and Global Affairs, American College of Greece

Hu Angang

Director of Center for China Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ivan Angulo

Director of Communications at the ANO "Institute for Problems of Interdependence"

Simon Anholt

Government Advisor; Parliamentarian, European Cultural Parliament

Oksana Antonenko

Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

Maria Apanovich

Associate Professor, Department of Demographic and Migration Policy, MGIMO University

Ekaterina Arapova

Director, Center of Sanction Policy Expertise
Institute for International Studies,
Deputy Dean, Department of International Relations, MGIMO University
Ph.D. in Economics

Nadezhda Arbatova

PhD Politics, Head of Department of European Political. Studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrei Areshev

Political scientist, editor-in-chief of the Scientific Society of Caucasian Studies website.

Alexandra Arkhangelskaya

Leading researcher of Higher School of Economics, as well as Institute for African Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Arkhangelsky

Literary critic; historical essayist; documentary director; columnist, RIA Novosti; author and anchor, daily intellectual talk-show “Tem vremenem” (“Those Days”), Culture channel; professor, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Alexander Artamonov

Editor-in-chief of the French-spoken Radio SPUTNIK (FM 91,3 – Paris)

Petr Artemiev

Expert of the Russian Council on International Affairs

Georgi Asatryan

Cand. Sc (History), analyst for the Russian Council on International Affairs and a TASS columnist

Yukio Asazuma

Vice-Chairman of the Association of Japanese-Russian Relations

Abas Aslani

Editor-in-chief, Iran Front Page,Visiting scholar at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies (CMESS)

Konstantin Asmolov

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Siniša Atlagić

Head of the Centre for Russian Studies at the University of Belgrade.

Vladimir Avatkov

Director of the Center of Oriental Studies, International Relations and Public Diplomacy

Shlomo Avineri

Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Igor Avlasenko

Associate Professor, Belarusian State University (Minsk)

Alexey Avtonomov

Member of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, vice-rector at the Griboedov Institute of International Law and Economics (IMPE)

Amuhaya C. Ayuma

Visiting lecturer, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Abayomi Azikiwe

Editor of Pan-African News Wire

Shaukat Aziz

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Hamidreza Azizi

Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin