Regional Expertise: Eurasia, Russia, China, South Asia, Central Asia, Belt and Road, Hybrid Warfare Key Credentials: PhD, MGIMO (Moscow State University of International Relations); member, expert council, Institute for Strategic Studies and Predictions, RUDN; Valdai Club expert Dr. Andrew Korybko is an American political analyst based in Moscow, specialising in the evolving relationship between US grand strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and the theory and practice of hybrid warfare. He holds a PhD from MGIMO — the Moscow State University of International Relations — and is a recognised member of the expert council for the Institute of Strategic Studies and Predictions at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN). Dr. Korybko’s analytical framework centres on the systemic transition to multipolarity — the structural shift in the international order as US primacy is contested by a resurgent China, a revisionist Russia, and an array of middle powers seeking strategic autonomy. His work examines how this transition is expressed through unconventional means: hybrid warfare, colour revolutions, proxy conflicts, economic coercion, and the weaponisation of connectivity infrastructure. He is the author of Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach to Regime Change, which analyses the Syria and Ukraine conflicts as models of a new form of strategic warfare, as well as The Law of Hybrid War: Eastern Hemisphere. His analysis appears across a range of international policy and strategic affairs publications, and he has been recognised by the Valdai Discussion Club as a specialist in the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s BRI, and hybrid warfare.