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Timothy Frye

Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University

Timothy Frye is a scholar of comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.  He is the author of five books on Russia, including Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia; Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia; and most recently, Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.