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'''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.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06j7azz0AM Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? And if so, so what?], person introducing Karen Dawisha gives a quick summary of her background</ref>  

'''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.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06j7azz0AM Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? And if so, so what?], person introducing Karen Dawisha gives a quick summary of her background</ref>  

After stepping outside her traditional academic genre into the realm of [[biography]], Cambridge University Press refused to publish her book on [[Vladimir Putin]]  citing the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[libel]] laws.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-book-shelved-mafia-ties/25321062.html</ref> The book was picked up by Simon & Schuster and published exclusively in the [[United States]]. Critics panned the book for sloppy research.<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/karen-dawisha-s-putin-book-blocked-by-british-libel-laws.html</ref><ref>https://www.economist.com/eastern-approaches/2014/04/03/a-book-too-far</ref><ref>https://deceptioninhighplaces.com/review-of-putins-kleptocracy-by-karen-dawisha/</ref>  Critics cite the main problem is the quality of the evidence which she describes as "the results of investigative journalism in the United States, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy, and all of this was backed by extensive interviews with Western officials who served in Moscow and St. Petersburg…and... the dump of nonredacted cables from [[Wikileaks]] is a very regrettable but also a completely fascinating source of information."<ref>pp.11-12.</ref>  There is almost no discussion about the quality of the sources when many very serious claims about individuals are made.

After stepping outside her traditional academic genre into the realm of [[biography]], Cambridge University Press refused to publish her book on [[Vladimir Putin]]  citing the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[libel]] laws (In the United Kingdom libel laws are more favorable to plaintiffs than in U.S. courts).<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-book-shelved-mafia-ties/25321062.html</ref> The book was picked up by Simon & Schuster and published exclusively in the [[United States]]. Critics panned the book for sloppy research.<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/karen-dawisha-s-putin-book-blocked-by-british-libel-laws.html</ref><ref>https://www.economist.com/eastern-approaches/2014/04/03/a-book-too-far</ref><ref>https://deceptioninhighplaces.com/review-of-putins-kleptocracy-by-karen-dawisha/</ref>  Critics cite the main problem is the quality of the evidence which she describes as "the results of investigative journalism in the United States, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy, and all of this was backed by extensive interviews with Western officials who served in Moscow and St. Petersburg…and... the dump of nonredacted cables from [[Wikileaks]] is a very regrettable but also a completely fascinating source of information."<ref>pp.11-12.</ref>  There is almost no discussion about the quality of the sources when many very serious claims about individuals are made.

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