Gustafson is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, and an author of numerous books about Russia’s fossil fuel dependence, the most recent being 2021’s Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change.
Lauren and Professor Gustafson discuss the question: is Putin promoting a geopolitical narrative of Russian supremacy over the country’s national economic future?
Further reading:
- Buy Klimat: Russian in the Age of Climate Change from Havard University Press.
- Professor Gustafson’s Substack.
- ‘Russia can no longer ignore the threat posed by climate change‘, LSE Blog, January 2022
- Part 1 and Part 2 of a Washington Post interview with Professor Gustafson in September 2022.