# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alec-rasizade
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:11:46.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alec-rasizade"
name: "Alec Rasizade"
slug: "alec-rasizade"
description: "Alec Rasizade is a prominent Soviet and American professor of history and political science, who specialized in Sovietology, primarily known for the typological model, which describes the impact of a decline in oil revenues on the process of decline in rentier states by stages and cycles of their general socio-economic degradation upon the end of an oil boom. He has also authored more than 200 studies on the history of the 20th century, Perestroika reforms and breakup of the USSR, oil diplomacy and contemporary politics in the post-Soviet states and autonomies of Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus."
tagline: "Azerbaijani-American history professor (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alec_Rasizade_in_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1947-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.26
  momentum:             0.8275862068965518
  historical:           5.472318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Rasizade"
    title: "Alec Rasizade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "اليك راسيزاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fli_Rasizad%C9%99"
    title: "Əli Rasizadə"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Расизаде, Али Шамилевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Rasizade"
    title: "Alec Rasizade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87"
    title: "الک رازی‌زاده"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35262734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump