The incendiary history of how Russia's fossil fuel empire became the Kremlin's most potent weapon
Sergey Radchenko is the Rupert Murdoch Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. He has served as a Global Fellow and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre and as the Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University (Shanghai). Professor Radchenko is a native of Sakhalin Island, Russia, and was educated in the US, Hong Kong, and the UK. Before he joined SAIS, Professor Radchenko worked and lived in Mongolia, China and Wales. He is the author of four previous books including the acclaimed To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (2024). He lives in Washington, DC.
