Karen Dawisha

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Karen Dawisha

Karen Dawisha ( December 3, 1949 in Colorado Springs - April 11, 2018 in Oxford , Ohio ) was an American political scientist and author . She worked as a professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and as director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies .

Life

Dawisha (nee Karen Hurst ) was born in Colorado Springs on December 3, 1949, to one of four children . Her mother Paula Keene was a teacher, her father Harry Hurst a jazz musician. She had two brothers and a sister. Karen attended the local state school where she took Russian classes. This sparked her interest in Russian culture and became the first step in her future career as an academic and writer. After high school, Dawisha initially received a bachelor's degree in Russian Politics from the University of Colorado Boulder . She spent a year at Lancaster University , where she met her future husband, Adeed Dawisha, an Iraqi academic who specializes in Middle Eastern politics. In 1975 Karen received a PhD from the London School of Economics . The Dawisha couple had two children, Nadia and Emile, and a grandson Theo. Karen and Adeed decided to retire from academic work together in 2016. She last suffered from lung cancer and died in Oxford, Ohio in April 2018.

Career

Dawisha's professional life was directly linked to politics and Russia. After serving on the Council on Foreign Relations , she became a member of the United States Department of State from 1985–1987 . From 1985-2000 she was director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies and Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park , after serving in the Department of Had taught political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Putin's Kleptocracy

In 2014 Dawisha published her book Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? which earned her considerable fame. This work describes Vladimir Putin's path to power in St. Petersburg in the 1990s . Dawisha's research on the subject described how the Russian President and his circle of acquaintances gained wealth and power within the country that resulted in total control of all Russian institutions and no way for a functioning democracy. She claimed that " Putin and his circle have tried from the start to create an authoritarian regime ruled by a close-knit clique ... which has used democracy for decoration rather than orientation. " Dawisha planned to publish her book at Cambridge University Press (CUP) analogous to the previous books. CUP rejected the manuscript, however, because they feared a legal risk due to possible defamation allegations in the publication of such controversial and explosive material. Dawisha replied that " one of the most important and respected publishers in the world refuses to publish a book, not because of its scientific quality ... but because the subject itself is too hot to work on ". In the end, Simon & Schuster agreed to the publication of the book in the USA because the American defamation laws are more loyal and the interest in the book was too high.

Publications

  • Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Egypt (Macmillan, 1979)
  • Soviet East-European Dilemmas: Coercion, Competition, and Consent (Holmes and Meier for the Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1981)
  • The Soviet Union in the Middle East: Politics and Perspectives (Holmes and Meier for the Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1982)
  • The Kremlin and the Prague Spring (California University Press, 1984)
  • Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge (Cambridge University Press, 1989, 2nd edition, 1990)
  • Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval (Cambridge University Press, with Bruce Parrott, 1994)
  • Putin's Kleptocracy (Cambridge University Press, with Bruce Parrott, 1994)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harding, Luke (April 20, 2018): Karen Dawisha obituary. In: The Guardian. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ [1] , Adeed Dawisha Page, Miami University.
  3. ↑ a b c Dr. Karen Dawisha (1949-2018). In: Miami University. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (eng).
  4. ↑ a b Barry, Ellen (April 17, 2018): "Karen Dawisha, 68, Dies; Traced Roots of Russian Corruption". In: The New York Times. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (eng).
  5. ↑ Евгений Аронов (04-04-16): "Путинская клептократия" - интерьвю c Карен Давиша ". In: Радио Свобода. Accessed January 11, 2020 (rus).
  6. ↑ Karen Dawisha (2014): "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?" Retrieved January 11, 2020 (eng).
  7. ^ EL (April, 3, 2014): "A Book Too Far". In: The Economist. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Dawisha, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado Springs
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2018
Place of death Oxford , Ohio