Timothy Frye featured in Foreign Policy
Putin Is No Unicorn
Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, was featured in Foreign Policy
“Weak Strongman” argues that to better understand Russia, we need to move past our fixation with its president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy, is often portrayed in the West as a three-dimensional chess grandmaster playing the world with one hand tied behind his shirtless back. No other world leader has captured imaginations quite like him. Small tidal waves of ink have been spilled on Putin’s history, and that of Russia, for answers to the question: What does Putin want?