An Autocrat's Dilemmas: Putin's Power and Its Limits
Journal: Asia policy
Year: 2022

An Autocrat's Dilemmas:Putin's Power and Its Limits Andrew Monaghan (bio) Timothy Frye begins his fine book, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia, with Russia's annexation of Crimea and the question of whether the United States should have militarily intervened in 2014. The book is intended to "improve our public conversation" about Russia (p. vii). His argument is that Russia is a personalist autocracy and an "opportunistic power that uses its military and economic might to inf