Although Putin was elected with promises to rein in the oligarchs who had emerged in the 1990s, Dawisha wrote that Putin transformed "an oligarchy independent of, and more powerful than, the state into a corporatist structure in which oligarchs served at the pleasure of state officials, who themselves gained and exercised economic control. In the book, Dawisha exposed how Putin's friends and coworkers from his formative years accumulated massive wealth and power. It chronicles the rise of Vladimir Putin during his time in St.
In 2014, Dawisha received considerable attention for her work detailing the rise and crimes of Vladimir Putin.ĭawisha's 2014 book Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? ( Simon & Schuster) has been called "a who's who of the people on the sanctions lists drawn up by America and the EU". Until the summer of 2000 she was a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she served as the Director of its Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies. Career ĭawisha served as an advisor to the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff and the Bureau of Political Military Affairs of the U.S. She received a bachelor's degree in Russian politics from University of Colorado Boulder, taking a year at Lancaster University in England where she met her husband, Adeed Dawisha. After taking a course in the Russian language in High School, she became interested in Russia.
She had three siblings, two brothers and a sister. Early life and education ĭawisha was born in Colorado on Decemas Karen Hurst to schoolteacher Paula Keene and Harry Hurst, who was a jazz pianist.
She was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Karen Dawisha (nee Hurst, Decem– April 11, 2018) was an American political scientist and writer.
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