Karen Dawisha is the Walter E Havighurst Professor of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is a world-renowned Russia expert who has written extensively about Soviet foreign policy, Russia-Middle East relations, and contemporary Russian politics. Her most recent book, published in 2014, is Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? Putin’s Kleptocracy was widely praised for its brilliant and in-depth examination of the Kremlin’s links to organized crime. But it also caused international controversy by being denied publication by Cambridge University Press on the grounds that it violated Britain’s libel laws. I interviewed Karen Dawisha via Skype on October …read more
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