Experts

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Political Analyst

PhD in Political Science

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)

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

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

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor