Timothy Frye

Timothy M. Frye is an American political scientist. He is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and the author of several books about Russia and Eurasia.


Books in order of publication:

Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia. University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia. Princeton University Press, 2021.