Russia 2010 And What It Means for the World; The CERA Report

New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiii, [5], 300, [2] pages. Maps. Notes. Index. Signed by Yergin and Gustafson on fep. Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). He is best known as author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. From 1978 through 1980, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In December 2016, Yergin joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues. In this courageous forecasting of a series of possible futures, Yergin and Gustafson posit that in 2010, Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic miracle that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a military dictatorship, bent on expansion. This visionary book offers several detailed scenarios of Russia's future. Using the management technique of "scenario planning" and drawing on an extensive knowledge of Russia's political and economic history, Yergin and Gustafson have produced a study that is shaping the investment strategies and that will become an essential text in policy debates. Russia 2010 captures in a timely way the changes shaking Russia and the former Soviet Union after Communism. The result is a book that not only can predict the future but has the power to change it.