
SpecialEurasia has a team of analysts and external consultants/contributors who aim to provide risk assessment and geopolitical forecasting and consult private and public companies about Eurasia’s current challenges and future opportunities.
At SpecialEurasia, we believe in team working to pursue our projects and reach strategic goals. Our team comprises specialists and experts in different fields and sectors who share their knowledge to support private and public institutions by consulting in geopolitical forecasting, intelligence analysis, due diligence, country risk assessment, and human intelligence.
At the same time, we have developed a network of partners and external contributors who support our activities by providing insights, analyses, and expertise for our research projects and working activities.
SpecialEurasia Team & Partners
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![]() Vlad Kondratiev – Media Partner/Academic Fellow. Political commentator, journalist. He collaborated with the Russian federal publication Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the information and analytical portal Kaspiskij Vestnik, specializing in the problems of geopolitics, geo-economics and security of the Caspian region. He is also a researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Astrakhan State University (Russia). Author of scientific articles on various aspects of the geopolitical situation in the Caspian region, current threats to the security of the Caspian countries, and the history of international relations in the Caspian. |
![]() tions related to the development of the transport complex of the region. Since 2011, he has been the head of the Astrakhan representative office of the public organisation “Caspian Cooperation Institute”. The Institute was founded in February 2010 in Moscow and is the first non-profit organisation in Russia that purposefully studies the political and socio-economic problems of the Caspian Sea and the states of the Caspian region. His scientific interests include, first of all, the development of sea and rail transport in the Caspian region, the implementation of the North-South project, and issues of geo-economics and geopolitics of the Caspian Sea. |
SpecialEurasia External Contributors
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Daniele Garofalo – Terrorism and Jihadist Propaganda Analyst. He holds an M.A. in History and Political Doctrines from the Federico II University of Naples. He is currently a Senior Analyst in Jihadist Terrorism and a member of the Scientific Committee for the Italian Center of Strategies and Intelligence – CISINT. He has written articles and reports on terrorism and jihadist propaganda for several foreign think tanks, media outlets, and magazines such as European Eye on Radicalization, The Jamestown Foundation, Jihadica and Militant Wire. He is the author of the book Medio Oriente insaguinato (Enigma Edizioni, 2020). Currently, he manages his personal blog/page titled Monitoring Jihadist Propaganda. |
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![]() Emanuele Aliprandi – Independent Researcher. He is a researcher and expert on the Caucasus region. Over the years, he has analysed the Armenian question, especially the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, by paying official visits on-the-ground. He published the books Le ragioni del Karabakh. Storia di una piccola terra e di un grande popolo (2010), and 1915: Cronaca di un Genocidio. La tragedia del popolo armeno raccontata dai giornali italiani (2021). His last book Pallottole e petrolio. Il conflitto del Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) e la nuova guerra che ha infiammato il Caucaso (2021) described the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and investigated the conflicts’ problems and consequences. |
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![]() Habib al-Badawi – Academic Scholar. He has been a scholar of Japanese studies since 2005. His M.A. thesis and PhD dissertation covered the modern history of Japan (Meiji-tenno, Taisho-tenno, and Showa-tenno). Badawi is currently a professor at Lebanese University and a freelance researcher in international relations. In 2016, he became the coordinator of the “United States of America – History and Civilization” course at the History Department for the university’s five branches. Badawi earned the “Academic Excellence Award in the Arab World” in the category of “Academic Personality of the Year 2018” for his role in introducing “Japanese studies” to the Arab world as a stand-alone academic field of “Human Sciences.” |
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![]() Mohamad al Mokdad – International Affairs Specialist. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Center for Diplomatic & Strategic Studies (CEDS) of Paris and a PhD in Geopolitics from the Paris Graduate School IKI-PGS. He is an officer of the Lebanese Armed Forces with professional experience in strategic and diplomatic studies. He speaks Arabic, English, French, and Italian.
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