Timothy Frye
Timothy Frye (Ph.D., Columbia, 1997) is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. Professor Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an M.I.A. from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia.
His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia, which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy, which won a Best Book Prize from the APSA Comparative Democratization section in 2010; and Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia, which was published in 2017.
His most recent book is Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia. He co-directs the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher Economics School in Moscow and edits Post-Soviet Affairs.
Source: Columbia University
