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Alec Rasizade
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<p>Alec Rasizade is a prominent Soviet and American professor of history and political science, who specialized in <a href="/facts/Sovietology/uS1asHHB">Sovietology</a>, primarily known for the typological model (or "<a href="/facts/Algorithm/fnl5NmRt">algorithm</a>" in his own words), which describes the impact of a drop in oil revenues on the process of decline in <a href="/facts/Rentier_state/WfeSdaW0">rentier states</a> by stages and cycles of their general socio-economic degradation upon the end of an <a href="/facts/Oil_boom/FpH8XReA">oil boom</a>. He has also authored more than 200 studies on the history of 20th century, <a href="/facts/Perestroika/KvdmEalx">Perestroika</a> reforms and breakup of the <a href="/facts/USSR/m7wWsPto">USSR</a>, oil diplomacy and contemporary politics in the <a href="/facts/Post-Soviet_states/usrFwWTU">post-Soviet states</a> and autonomies of Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. </p>