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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 Simon and 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>

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>

== Books ==

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