Thane Gustafson (born 1944) is a professor of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

, United States. He specializes in

comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the '' comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relat ...

and the

political history Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, soci ...

of Russia and the former

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. Gustafson holds degrees in both

and

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, and a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He is a former professor at Harvard, and a former analyst for

RAND Corporation The RAND Corporation, doing business as RAND, is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND engages in research and development (R&D) in several fields and industries. Since the ...

. He is Senior Director of Russian and Caspian Energy for IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA). Gustafson is the author of ''Capitalism Russian Style'', ''Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev'' (which was awarded the Marshall Shulman Book Prize as the best book on Soviet affairs), coauthor (with

Daniel Yergin Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, economic historian, and consultant within the energy and economic sectors. Yergin is vice chairman of S&P Global. He was formerly vice chairman of IHS Markit, which merged with ...

) of ''Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World'', and ''Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia''. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire from 1966 to 1968 with his wife Ruth Gustafson.

Works

* ''Capitalism Russian-style'' Cambridge, England; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. * ''Wheel of Fortune: the Battle for Oil and Power in Russia'', Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. * ''Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev'', Princeton University Press, 2016. * ''The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe'' Harvard University Press, 2020. * ''Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change''. Harvard University Press, 2021. * ''Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future''. Oxford University Press.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gustafson, Thane Living people Georgetown University faculty RAND Corporation people Harvard University alumni University of Illinois alumni 1944 births