The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia
and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
cordially invite you to
Putin's Power and Vulnerabilities:
Celebrate Three New Books with the Authors
Friday, May 21, 2021
10:00 - 11:30 am (ET)
Virtual Event - Click Here for Zoom Session
SPEAKERS
Timothy Frye
Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University and Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His most recent book Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia was published by Princeton University Press in April 2021.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is a Reader at King's Russia Institute (King's College London). Gulnaz specializes in federalism and subnational politics in Russia. Her most recent book, The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity was published in October 2020 by Oxford University Press.
Regina Smyth
Regina Smyth is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She specializes in the evolution of state-society relations and state responsiveness in autocratic and transitional regimes, focusing on elections, protest, and legislative decision-making. Her most recent book, Elections, Protest, and Autocratic Regime Stability: Russia 2008-2020, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2020.
This event is on the record and open to the media.
PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.