Karen Dawisha

Dawisha meeting President Vladimir Putin.

Karen Dawisha (December 2, 1949 – April 11, 2018) was an American political scientist and writer. She is a former professor in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is also a former director of The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She received her Ph.D. from a leading globalist academic institution, the London School of Economics. She also worked for the United States State Department.

After stepping outside her traditional academic genre into the realm of biography to do a paid hit piece on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cambridge University Press refused to publish her book on Vladimir Putin citing the United Kingdom's libel laws. Editor John Haslam cited the legal risk of publishing the manuscript in an email of March 20, later published by Edward Lucas in The Economist magazine. Haslam wrote: "Given the controversial subject matter of the book, and its basic premise that Putin's power is founded on his links to organised crime, we are not convinced that there is a way to rewrite the book that would give us the necessary comfort". Dawisha took the book to the United States where libel laws are less favorable than in the UK. It was published by the American publisher Simon & Schuster.

Academic works

• The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 8: Economic Transition in Russia and the New States of Eurasia 1st Edition by Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge; 1st edition (September 17, 2016)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 1: The Influence of History 1st Edition by Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge; 1st edition (September 16, 2016)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 3: The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia 1st Edition, Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge; 1st edition (June 16, 2016)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: Volume 4: The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia 1st Edition by Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge; 1st edition (May 20, 2015)

• Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (Democratization and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Societies, Series Number 3) First Edition by Karen Dawisha (Editor), Bruce Parrott (Editor), Cambridge University Press; First Edition (June 13, 1997)

• The End of Empire? Comparative Perspectives on the Soviet Collapse (INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF EURASIA) by Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, M.E. Sharpe (November 30, 1996)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: Vol 7: Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (The International Politics of Eurasia, V. 7) by Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, Routledge; 2nd edition (October 31, 1995)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 2: The Influence of National Identity 1st Edition by Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge; 1st edition (September 30, 1994)

• Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval by Karen Dawisha, Cambridge University Press (January 28, 1994)

• The Kremlin and the Prague Spring (International Crisis Behavior, Vol 4), University of California Pr (January 1, 1984)

• The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Policies and perspectives by Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha (editor), Published by Heinemann for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (January 1, 1982)

• The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 10: The International Dimension of Post-communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by Karen Dawisha and S. Frederick Starr, Routledge (March 31, 1997)

• The End Of Empire? The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective? [INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF EURASIA, VOLUME 9] by Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, M.E. Sharpe (January 1, 1997)

• The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia [INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF EURASIA, VOLUME 1] by Adeed Dawisha & Karen Dawisha (Editor), M.E. Sharpe (January 1, 1995)

Non-academic work

• Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha. Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (September 22, 2015)

Karen Dawish speaks on her book: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

• Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, Tales of corruption in Russia are nothing new. But in her new book, “Putin’s Kleptocracy,” Karen Dawisha connects the dots between government and private sector corruption and Vladimir Putin’s rapid rise to power, leading to the question, who owns Russia?

• Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? And if so, so what?, A presentation by Karen Dawisha on her book "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia" on May 1, 2015 at Stanford University

• Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, 2015

External links

• Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.