Security Index Yearbook 2024-2025 Global Edition
Security Index Yearbook 2024-2025 Global Edition is a unique collection of analytical materials on the most burning issues of the global and regional agendas in times of growing international tension and Russian approaches to them. This volume 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. In terms of regional security, it concentrates on Russia-China relations, the Middle East, Russia-Iran relations, the assessment of BRICS prospects, new developments in the relations between Russia and African countries, and 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 events in global and regional security.
The Security Index Yearbook 2024-2025 Global Edition was officially launched on June 27 in Zvenigorod.
Today, a lack of globally focused publications with analytical materials written by Russian international relations experts is evident. It has become more challenging for the Russian academic community to deliver its views on topical issues of global security to a worldwide audience. However, such analysis is more in demand than ever. Russia remains an essential part of the international community and plays a significant role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; it is one of the critical actors in the global arena, holding the world back from sliding into chaos. Wars on narratives, which regrettably have been emerging in academia these days, do not contribute in any way to finding an efficient response to global challenges.
Dr. Anatoly Torkunov,
Rector of MGIMO University
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.
Key words: Global Security; Security Index Yearbook
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F4/SOR – 24/08/02
