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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>  

Dawisha wrote a book on the government of [[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".<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> Dawisha took the book to the United States where libel laws are less favorable than in the [[UK]].<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-book-shelved-mafia-ties/25321062.html</ref>  It was published by the American publisher Simon & Schuster.  

After stepping outside her traditional academic genre into the realm of [[biography]] to do a paid hit piece on Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]].<ref>https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-by-region/european-politics/is-russia-really-a-kleptocracy</ref> 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".<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> Dawisha took the book to the United States where libel laws are less favorable than in the [[UK]].<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-book-shelved-mafia-ties/25321062.html</ref>  It was published by the American publisher Simon & Schuster.  

== Academic works ==

== Academic works ==

*''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)  

*''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)  

== Book ==

== Non-academic work ==

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

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

==References==

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