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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 (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 published by the American publisher Simon & Schuster.  

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. Editor John Haslam cited the legal risk of publishing the manuscript in an email of March 20, later published by [[Edward Lucas (journalist)|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".<ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=A book too far|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2014/04/russia|date=April 3, 2014|accessdate=October 3, 2015|newspaper=The Economist}}</ref><ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-book-shelved-mafia-ties/25321062.html</ref> The book was published by the American publisher Simon & Schuster.  

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