Security Index Yearbook 2024-2025 Global Edition
The Security Index Yearbook, with its 576 pages, consists of eight Parts and 29 Chapters. It highlights the issues of global concern such as international terrorism, nuclear weapons and strategic arms control agenda, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, new types of conventional weapons, space security, and cyber diplomacy. Regarding regional security, it concentrates on Sino-Russian relations, the Middle East, Russian-Iranian relations, the assessment of BRICS prospects, new developments in the relations between Russia and African countries, and the security dialogue between Russia and the states of Latin America, to mention just a few. It also contains book reviews and the chronology of recent global and regional security events.
The Yearbook brings together under its cover 31 authors: Dr. Irina Abramova, Director of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences; H.E. Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Amb. Kirill Barsky, Head of the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO University; Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC); Dr. Dmitry Trenin, Senior Research Fellow at the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Sector of the Center for International Security of IMEMO RAS; Dr. Vladimir Orlov, PIR Center Founding Director, Professor at MGIMO University; Dr. Dmitry Polikanov, Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo; Dr. Maxim Suchkov, Director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University; Dr. Vasily Kashin, Director of the Department of World Economy and World Politics at HSE University; Dr. Dmitry Evstafiev, Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and State at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Dr. Mikhail Lysenko, Deputy Director of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University; Mr. Dmitry Stefanovich, Research Fellow at the Sector for Military Economics and Innovation of the Center for International Security at IMEMO RAS; Dr. Elena Chernenko, Special Correspondent of the Kommersant Daily, member of PIR Center Executive Board, among others.
The International Editorial Board of the Security Index Yearbook is headed by Acad. Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO University, and includes, among others Dr. Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Russian Federation in 2018-2021, distinguished fellow of the Vivekananda International Foundation; Dr. Nabil Fahmy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (2013-2014), Dean Emeritus of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo; Dr. Sergey Brilev, President of the Global Energy Association; Dr. Mikhail Margelov, Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council; Dr. Tariq Rauf, Former Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination Department at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Amb. Sergio Duarte, a career diplomat of Brazil, former President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Lieutenant General (ret.) Evgeny Buzhinsky, PIR Center Executive Board Chairman.
