Contributors

Gulshan Sachdeva

Professor, Jean Monnet Chair at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Editor-in-Chief, International Studies

Omar Sadr

Senior Researcher, Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS)

Murad Sadygzade

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Guest lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, RANEPA, MGIMO Odintsovo

Ivan Safranchuk

Director, Senior Research Fellow, Center of Euro-Asian Studies, IIS MGIMO University

Alexander Sagomonyan

Doctor of History and Professor

Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi

Iranian ambassador to Russia (2009-2013)

Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and President of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)

Vasil Sakaev

Associate professor, Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy

Vijay Sakhuja

Director of Research at the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India

Richard Sakwa

Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Ghassan Salame

Professor of International Relations Emeritus, Sciences Po, Paris

Walid Salem

Director of the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Community Development

Naeem Salik

Executive Director, Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Marcel Salikhov

President of the Institute for Energy and Finance Foundation

Lyudmila Samarskaya

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

Elias Samo

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service (SIS), American University, Washington, DC

Mateo Rojas Samper

PhD student in the Department of World Politics at the School of Governance and Politics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Sergey Samuilov

Head of the Center for US Foreign Policy Studies at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mehdi Sanaei

Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Iran, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia (2013–2019)

Ricardo Santos

Information Security and Cyber Law Expert from Mozambique

Giulio Sapelli

Professor of Economic History and Director of the post-graduate course on “Economy, enterprise and humanitarian disciplines between East and West, University of Milan; Socrates-Erasmus coordinator in University of Milan

Jacques Sapir

Director of studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and head of the Centre d'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS)

Darya Saprynskaya

Research Fellow, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Alexei Sarabyev

PhD in History, Leading Recearch Fellow, Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief, “Religion and Society in the East” journal

Samir Saran

President of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Sevak Sarukhanyan

Consultant, EDB Digital Initiatives Fund

Paul J. Saunders

Senior Fellow, US Foreign Policy Center for National Interest

Alexander Savelyev

Head of the Strategic Research Department, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Alina Savelyeva

Assistant, Department of International Economics, School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Nikita Savin

Lecturer, Postgraduate Student, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Giovanni Savino

Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, RANEPA

Ekaterina Savorskaya

Associate professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Pravin Sawhney

Editor of the FORCE newsmagazine based in New Delhi, India. His latest book is The Last War: How AI Will Shape India’s Final Showdown With China.

Emil Sayfullin

An employee of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, a RIAC expert.

Vladimir Sazhin

Senior Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Hans-Henning Schröder

Head of the Russia/CIS Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Professor for East European History at Bremen University

Wolfgang Schüssel

Federal Chancellor of Austria (2000–2007); Chairman of DER-Dialog-Europe-Russia

Julian Schuster

Provost and Senior Vice President, Webster University

Herman Mark Schwartz

Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, USA

Yoram Schweitzer

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS, Israel)

Randall Schweller

Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University

Patrick Seale

Writer, journalist, lecturer and consultant on Middle East affairs

Sergey Sebekin

Candidate of historical sciences, independent expert

Denis Sekirinsky

PhD in History; senior research fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences; secretary, National Committee of the Russian Historians; CEO, Academic Educational Association for the Humanities

Ori Sela

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Sellita

Lecturer, International Relations Department, Bakrie University, Jakarta, Indonesia

Artyom Semenov

Deputy Director of the Higher School of Law, Academic Director of the HSE Programme "Business with China: Organisational, Legal, and Financial Support"

Kirill Semyonov

Head of the Islamic Studies Center at the Innovation Development Institute and expert on Russian International Affairs Council

Ninel Seniuk

Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Andrés Serbin

Chair of CRIES Academic Council

Andrei Serbin Pont

Director of CRIES (Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales), a Latin American and Caribbean think tank.

Sergey Serebrov

Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Yegor Sergeev

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Lecturer at the Department of World Economy at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Regional Problems of World Politics, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University.

Victor Sergeev

Director of the Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies (IIS), MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia

Bruno Sergi

PhD, teaches “International Economics” and “International Political Economy and Finance” at the University of Messina

Alexander Sergunin

Professor, Department of International Relations, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University

Kirill Seroshtanov

Candidate of historical sciences, deputy head of the department for foreign economic relations and military-technical cooperation at the Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant joint-stock company

Alexey Shadrin

Founder of the Russian Carbon Fund and Evercity; Head of the Finance Working Group at the Climate Chain Coalition

Farid Shafiev

Chairman of the Board of the Center for International Relations Analysis (Azerbaijan).

Kriti M Shah

Junior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Salman Shaikh

Founder and CEO of The Shaikh Group (TSG)

Nayak Shailesh

Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies (Bengaluru)

Viktor Shakhmatov

Director of the Directorate of Digital Initiatives of the Eurasian Development Bank

Feng Shaolei

Director, Centre for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

Jacob L. Shapiro

Founder and Chief Strategist of Perch Perspectives

Alexander Sharavin

Professor, Director of the Russian Institute of Political and Military Analysis

Sergei Shargunov

Writer; Journalist; Editor-in-Chief of the Free Press website

Pavel Sharikov

Leading Researcher at the Department of the European Integration Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

B.K. Sharma

Maj Gen (Retd), Strategic Expert and Former Director General of the United Service Institution of India

Raj Kumar Sharma

Visiting Fellow, United Service Institution of India and Post Doc Fellow, Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi

Tamara Shashikhina

Director of the Foreign Ministry MGIMO University’s Eurasian Studies Institute

Tatiana Shaumyan

Head, Center for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alina Shcherbakova

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Latin America, Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University

Alexander Shchipkov

Political philosopher and rector of the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian.

Ekaterina Shebalina

PhD in history, research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University

Mohammad Reza Sheibani

Former Iranian Ambassador to Syria

Andrei Shelkovnikov

Expert, Centre for African Studies, HSE University

Maxim Shepovalenko

Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST)

Thomas Sherlock

Professor of Political Science at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

James Sherr

Independent expert, former Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)

Vladislav Shershulsky

Ph.D (Computational Physics); Director for Technology Development, GS Invest

Yevgeny Shestakov

Editor of the international politics desk at Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Marat Shibutov

Member of the National Council of Public Trust Under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Sheng Shiliang

Senior Research Fellow, Global Challenges Studies, Xinhua News Agency

Nobuo Shimotomai

Professor, Hosei University (Japan)

Lyubov Shishelina

Doctor of History, Head of the Section of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Pavel Shlykov

Head of the Oriental Studies Programme, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Nataliya Shok

Professor, Privolzhsky Research Medical University (PRMU), Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation; member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH).

Alexander Shokhin

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Vladimir Shubin

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher, Institute for African Studies Russian Academy of Sciences

Vinay Shukla

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Prabhat Shukla

Joint Director of Vivekananda International Foundation, former Ambassador of India to Russia

Vyacheslav Shuper

Doctor of Geography, Professor and Leading Researcher of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at Bernardo O'Higgins University, Santiago, Chile.

Igor Shuvalov

Chairman of the State Development Corporation VEB.RF, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2008 - 2018)

Gabi Siboni

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Strategy and Security in Jerusalem (Israel)

Igor Sid

Specialist in African culture and literature on Africa, Traveller

Marco Siddi

Montalcini Assistant Professor, University of Cagliari and Associate Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Chief Executive at the South African Institute of International Affairs

Yegor Sigauri-Gorsky

Researcher, Centre for Vietnam and ASEAN Studies, Institute of China and Modern Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences

Archil Sikharulidze

Founder of the SIKHA foundation (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Nikolai Silaev

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Caucasus Problems and Regional Security, MGIMO University

Dimitri Simes

Founder and ex-President of the Center for the National Interest (USA)

Konstantin Simonov

Director General of the National Energy Security Fund, Head of the Politology Department at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Gregory Simons

Professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abhijit Singh

Head of the Maritime Policy Initiative, Observer Research Foundation

Oksana Sinyavskaya

Deputy Director at the Institute for Social Policy, NRU HSE

Oleg Sirota

Head of the Union of Russian Cheese Makers, Farmer-Cheese Maker

Xu Sitao

Chief Economist, Partner of Deloitte China

Andrey Skriba

Research fellow, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Olga Slavova

Expert at the Eurasian Studies Institute, MGIMO University

Yuri Slezkine

Professor at University of California, Berkely and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Peter Slezkine

Senior Fellow, Director of the Russia Program at the Stimson Centre and host of The Trialogue Podcast.

Randa Slim

Director of the Track II Dialogues initiative at the Washington-based Middle East Institute

Andrew Small

Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia program, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Robert Smigielski

Analyst with the Polish Institute of International Affairs

Veronika Smirnova

Research Assistant, CCEIS HSE

Enrico Soddu

Head of Data & Analytics, International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Artyom Sokolov

Research Fellow, MGIMO University

Vladimir Sokolov

Associate Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Boris Sokolov

Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR) of the Higher School of Economics; graduate student at the Faculty of political science of Saint Petersburg State University

Yulia Sokolshchik

Program Coordinator, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Lev Sokolshik

Research Fellow: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs/ Centre for Comprehensive European and International Analysis Studies (CCEIS)

Theo Sommer

1930–2022
Editor at Large, German newspaper Die Zeit

Jeffrey Sommers

Professor, and Senior Fellow at the Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Nabi Sonboli

Senior expert at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Iran.

Rakesh Sood

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Distinguished Fellow at ORF

Vladimir Sotnikov

Leading Researcher, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vitaly Sovin

Independent analyst, sanctions policy expert

Hans-Joachim Spanger

Head of Research Department, Leibniz Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Research Professor, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Ilya Spektor

Senior Researcher, the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Claire Spencer

Head of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme at the foreign policy institute Chatham House

Philip Spoerri

Head of Delegation in Syria, International Committee of the Red Cross

Vitaly Stakhovsky

Deputy Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research

Felix Stanevsky

Head of the Caucasus Department, Institute for CIS Countries; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, former Russia ambassador to Georgia

Maxim Starchak

Research Fellow, Center for International and Defense Policy, University of Queens (Canada), Deputy Executive Editor, Eurasian Security Studies journal (Japan), Visiting Fellow, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Jonathan Steele

Independent International Affairs Commentator

Dmitry Stefanovich

Researcher at the Center for International Security at IMEMO RAS

Pyotr Stegniy

Member, Russian Council on International Affairs (RCIA); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; DSc in History

Aaron Stein

Director of the Middle East program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Angela Stent

Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University

Alexander Stepanov

Programme Director of the Academy of Political Sciences, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILA RAS)

Ilya Stepanov

Intern Researcher, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University "Higher School of Economics"

Anastasia Stepanova

Head of the Committee for Cooperation with China and BRICS, Eurasian Business Association (EAAB)

Gábor Stier

Special correspondent for the Hungarian weekly journal Demokrata; Founding Editor-in-Chief of moszkvater.com.

Ilya Storchilov

Student of the Master's program "Strategic and Arms Control Studies", St. Petersburg State University

Kancho Stoychev

President of the Gallup Institute (London), Director and President of the Gallup International Association (2017–2023)

Irina Strelnikova

Associate Professor, Research Fellow at the Department of Foreign Regional Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Dmitry Streltsov

Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) at the Foreign Ministry

Oliver Stuenkel

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Sao Paulo, where he coordinates the Sao Paulo branch of the School of History and Social Science (CPDOC) and the executive program in International Relations

Alexander Stukalin

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant Daily

Michael Stürmer

Chief Correspondent, WELT-Gruppe, Berlin

Yudi Subiantoro

Lecturer at the Department of Military History, Faculty of Defence Strategy, Republic of Indonesia Defence University (RIDU)

Maxim Suchkov

Director of the Institute for International Studies at MGIMO University, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied International Analysis at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute

Vladimir Sudarev

Professor of MGIMO University, expert on Latin America

Brig. Gen. Sudaryono

Lecturer at Faculty of Defence Strategy, Republic of Indonesia Defence University

Gleb Sugakov

(PhD), Junior Researcher, Centre for Global and Strategic Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAS RAS), Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists, IAS RAS

Rudi Sukandar

Senior Researcher, The Habibie Center; Senior Lecturer, London School of Public Relations

Nikolai Sukhov

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)

Bulat Sultanov

Director of the Research Institute of International and Regional Cooperation at the Kazakh-German University

Viktor Sumsky

Doctor of Science (History), ASEAN Center at MGIMO University

Elena Suponina

Head of Asia and Middle East Center of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies

Nikolay Surkov

Senior Researcher, Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Andrey Sushentsov

Dean of the School of International Relations at MGIMO University

Joko Susilo

Joko Susilo, participant in the Valdai – New Generation project, knowledge manager at Nalar Institute (Indonesia).

Dmitry Suslov

Deputy Director at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Vyacheslav Sutyrin

Senior Researcher, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University; Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy, MGIMO University

Vsevolod Sviridov

Expert, Centre for African Studies, HSE University

Dmitry Sychev

Head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Professor

Leonid Sykiainen

Professor, School of General and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Anna Sytnik

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University, Leading Researcher at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Managing Director of the ANO “Coordination Laboratory”.