Timothy M. Frye is an American political scientist. He is the

Marshall D. Shulman Marshall Darrow Shulman (1916 - June 21, 2007) was an American diplomat, scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of Harriman Institute, W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University. Born i ...

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.

Biography

Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

in 1986, an M.I.A. from the

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in 1992, and a Ph.D. from

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in 1997. Frye was the director of the

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at Columbia University from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of the Political Science Department from 2016-2019. From 2011-2022, he was the academic supervisor and leading research fellow of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and is now on leave from this position. Since 2016, he is the editor of Post-Soviet Affairs.

Awards

He won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the

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for ''Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy'' in 2011. Previously, he won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Bibliography

* ''Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia''. Princeton University Press, 2021. * ''Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia''. Cambridge University Press, 2017. *''Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy''. Cambridge University Press, 2010. *''Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia''. University of Michigan Press, 2000.

References

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