Karen Dawisha
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Dawisha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawisha |
| SIGNATURE | DAWISHA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Escape from Institution-Building in a Globalized World: Lessons from Russia
Strong institutions and accountable governments are imperative for any country’s long-term prosperity. Yet the development of such institutions has presented a continuous challenge for many countries around the world. Using Russia as a case, this study brings attention to the unexpected negative impact of global interdependence and shows that institutional arbitrage opportunities have enabled economic actors to solve for institutional weaknesses …
Is Russia's Foreign Policy That of a Corporatist-Kleptocratic Regime
Is Russian foreign policy the foreign policy of a struggling democratic, hybrid, semi-authoritarian, rentier, or corporatist-kleptocratic state? Russia possesses all the trappings of a state with a long-established set of institutions representing state interests abroad, but it also has a set of elites whose purpose is both to represent and promote state interests abroad and to enrich themselves, very often at the state's expense. While Russian f…
Soviet Studies, National Security and the Production of “Useful” Knowledge: A Discussion of Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. By David C. Engerman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 480p. $34.95. Know Your Enemy is a sociology of knowledge of the rise of post–World War II Russian and Soviet Studies, written by intellectual historian David C. Engerman. While it is not a work of political science, it offers an important historical analysis of a foundational episode in the history of the political scien…
Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond
Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development
Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development. By Conor O'Dwyer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 278p. $49.95. This first book by Conor O'Dwyer adds to a growing and impressive collection of works on state building in postcommunist countries. In it he seeks to explain the variation in the growth of large patronage networks in state administrations in three central European countries—Poland, the Czech R…
Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change
Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change. By Nicolai N. Petro. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 255p. $39.95. In examining the reasons why Russia is now having problems making the transition to democracy, many scholars cite the absence of a democratic past. Seeing Russia as a country unremittingly ruled by authoritarian leaders, analysts increasingly are viewing Vladimir Putin's turn away from democracy as “n…
Political Learning in Post-Communist Elections
This article draws several conclusions. First, that elections provide critical information for shaping behavior, since in the second and third rounds, party elites and voters behaved in ways that were rational considering the outcome of the previous election. Second, on the whole, states have adopted a variety of systems and rarely changed them in major ways after the second round of elections, indicating that electoral systems quickly become con…
The Role of Ideas in Post-Communist Politics: A Reevaluation
Communism as a Lived System of Ideas in Contemporary Russia
Many in the West and the USSR (but not in Eastern Europe) were surprised that communism as an idea fell along with the regimes that it had buttressed. Perhaps because of this exhaustion, the kind of fervent ideas-centered debates that had characterized previous revolutionary periods are largely absent in Russia. Yet communist ideas and ways of life have become the subject of nostalgic memory and reinterpretation, entering the post-communist prese…
The Question of Questions: Was the Soviet Union Worth Saving
Karen Dawisha suggests that Cohen's argument is based on a minimalist definition of the requirements for the survival of the "Soviet Union" and that it ignores what she asserts is its most fundamental feature, the essential internalized and structural violence that was at the heart of the Soviet system. She therefore disagrees with Cohen, arguing that at the end of the day, Gorbachev's brilliance and capabilities were restricted by the fact that …
How to Build a Democratic Iraq
THUS FAR, most of the endless talk about the war in Iraq has focused on several issues: the scale of the operation, Washington's motivation, and the rift in the Atlantic alfiance. It is now safe to assume, however, that if and when war comes (as of this writing, the battle had yet to begin), the United States and its allies will win, Saddam Hussein and his cronies will be toppled, and some sort of massive military occupation will follow. In the a…
The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999 . Thomas Remington The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma . Steven S. Smith ,…
Electocracies and the Hobbesian Fishbowl of Postcommunist Politics
All but two postcommunist countries (Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) have held at least one election that international observers have deemed to be largely free and fair. Fully sixteen of the twenty-seven postcommunist states have held multiple, free and fair elections. Yet at the same time, less than half a dozen countries have made sufficient overall progress toward a full and self-sustaining democratic transition to justify inclusion in the first…
The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe
Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post-communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The authors analyse the patterns of post-communist democratization in these countries, paying particular attention to the process of party formation, electoral politics, the growth of civil society, and the impact of eco…
Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova
Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of postcommunist politics, this 1997 book brings together distinguished specialists on the former communist countries of Russia and the Western Newly Independent States. Chapters on Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, plus three chapters on Russia's regional politics, its political parties, and the overall process of democratization, provide an in-depth analysis of the uneven pattern of political change in…
Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe
Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia/Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania. The authors analyse the challenge of building democracy in the countries of the former Yugoslavia riven by conflict, and in neighboring states. They focus on oppositional activity, political cultures that often favour st…
Russian Foreign Policy in the Near Abroad and Beyond
Essay| October 01 1996 Russian Foreign Policy in the Near Abroad and Beyond Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha is a professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland and director of its Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies. Her most recent book is Foreign Policy-Making in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995). The author would like to thank Darya Pushkina for …
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy-Brezhnev to Andropov
The Soviet polity in the modern era
Journal Article The Soviet polity in the modern era Get access The Soviet polity in the modern era. Edited by Erik P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird. New York: Aldine. 1984. 942pp. Index. $49.95. Pb.: $24.95. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Princeton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619823 Published: 01…
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
Is Russia's Foreign Policy That of a Corporatist-Kleptocratic Regime
Is Russian foreign policy the foreign policy of a struggling democratic, hybrid, semi-authoritarian, rentier, or corporatist-kleptocratic state? Russia possesses all the trappings of a state with a long-established set of institutions representing state interests abroad, but it also has a set of elites whose purpose is both to represent and promote state interests abroad and to enrich themselves, very often at the state's expense. While Russian f…
The Soviet polity in the modern era
Journal Article The Soviet polity in the modern era Get access The Soviet polity in the modern era. Edited by Erik P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird. New York: Aldine. 1984. 942pp. Index. $49.95. Pb.: $24.95. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Princeton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619823 Published: 01…
The Escape from Institution-Building in a Globalized World: Lessons from Russia
Strong institutions and accountable governments are imperative for any country’s long-term prosperity. Yet the development of such institutions has presented a continuous challenge for many countries around the world. Using Russia as a case, this study brings attention to the unexpected negative impact of global interdependence and shows that institutional arbitrage opportunities have enabled economic actors to solve for institutional weaknesses …
Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development
Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development. By Conor O'Dwyer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 278p. $49.95. This first book by Conor O'Dwyer adds to a growing and impressive collection of works on state building in postcommunist countries. In it he seeks to explain the variation in the growth of large patronage networks in state administrations in three central European countries—Poland, the Czech R…
Political Learning in Post-Communist Elections
This article draws several conclusions. First, that elections provide critical information for shaping behavior, since in the second and third rounds, party elites and voters behaved in ways that were rational considering the outcome of the previous election. Second, on the whole, states have adopted a variety of systems and rarely changed them in major ways after the second round of elections, indicating that electoral systems quickly become con…
How to Build a Democratic Iraq
THUS FAR, most of the endless talk about the war in Iraq has focused on several issues: the scale of the operation, Washington's motivation, and the rift in the Atlantic alfiance. It is now safe to assume, however, that if and when war comes (as of this writing, the battle had yet to begin), the United States and its allies will win, Saddam Hussein and his cronies will be toppled, and some sort of massive military occupation will follow. In the a…
Soviet Foreign Policy Towards Egypt
Communism as a Lived System of Ideas in Contemporary Russia
Many in the West and the USSR (but not in Eastern Europe) were surprised that communism as an idea fell along with the regimes that it had buttressed. Perhaps because of this exhaustion, the kind of fervent ideas-centered debates that had characterized previous revolutionary periods are largely absent in Russia. Yet communist ideas and ways of life have become the subject of nostalgic memory and reinterpretation, entering the post-communist prese…
Soviet cultural relations with Iraq, Syria and Egypt 1955–70
The Role of Ideas in Post-Communist Politics: A Reevaluation
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
Soviet-East European Dilemmas: Coercion, Competition, and Consent
Soviet-East European Dilemmas
The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999 . Thomas Remington The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma . Steven S. Smith ,…
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval
Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: The dynamics of influence
Journal Article Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: the dynamics of influence Get access Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: the dynamics of influence. By Alvin Z. Rubinstein. New York: Praeger. 1982. Index. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 1983, Pages 150–…
The Soviet Union in the Middle East
Soviet Decision-Making in the Middle East: The 1973 October War and the 1980 Gulf War
Journal Article Soviet Decision-Making in the Middle East: The 1973 October War and the 1980 Gulf War Get access Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 43–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619358 Published: 01 January 1980
The Roles of Ideology in the Decision-Making of the Soviet Union
The Roles of Ideology in the Decision-Making of the Soviet Union
Soviet cultural relations with Iraq, Syria and Egypt 1955–70
Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970 and The Middle East in Soviet Policy
Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970 and The Middle East in Soviet Policy Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970. By Robert O. Freedman. New York, Washington, London: Praeger. 1975. 198 pp. £9.10. Pb:$5.95£3.30.The Middle East in Soviet Policy. By R. D. McLaurin. Lexington, Mass., Toronto, London: Lexington Books, D. C. Heath. 1975. 206 pp. £6.75. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Southampton Search for other works by…
Soviet Policy in the Middle East: Present Dilemmas and Future Trends
From the Cold War to Detente and Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East
Journal Article From the Cold War to Detente and Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East Get access From the Cold War to Detente. Edited by Peter J. Potichnyj and Jane P. Shapiro. New York, London: Praeger. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Martin Robertson, London.) 223 pp. £13.00.Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East. By Jon D. Glassman. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. 243 pp. £8…
Yom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis and Red Star on the Nile: The Soviet-Egyptian Influence Relationship since the June War
Journal Article Yom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis and Red Star on the Nile: The Soviet-Egyptian Influence Relationship since the June War Get access Yom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis. By Galia Golan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977. 350 pp. £9.00.Red Star on the Nile: The Soviet-Egyptian Influence Relationship since the June War. By Alvin Z. Rubinstein. Princeton: Princet…
Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems and Soviet Military Power and Performance
Journal Article Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems and Soviet Military Power and Performance Get access Civil-Military Relations in Communist Systems. Edited by Dale R. Herspring and Ivan Volgyes. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 1978. 273 pp. $22.50.Soviet Military Power and Performance. Edited by John Erickson and E. J. Feuchtwanger. London: Macmillan. 1979. 219 pp. £12.00. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Southampton Search…
Soviet Foreign Policy Towards Egypt
Soviet Decision-Making in the Middle East: The 1973 October War and the 1980 Gulf War
Journal Article Soviet Decision-Making in the Middle East: The 1973 October War and the 1980 Gulf War Get access Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 43–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619358 Published: 01 January 1980
Communist Reformation, Nationalism, Internationalism and Change in the World Communist Movement
Journal Article Communist Reformation, Nationalism, Internationalism and Change in the World Communist Movement Get access Communist Reformation, Nationalism, Internationalism and Change in the World Communist Movement. Edited by G. R. Urban. London: Temple Smith. 1979. 335 pp. £9.50. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Is…
Soviet Perceptions of the United States and Soviet Bargaining Behavior: The Nuclear Test Ban Case
Soviet Security and the Role of the Military: The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis
One of the major issues surrounding the perennial debates over Soviet alliance management is whether the Soviet leadership considers its military positionvis-à-visWestern Europe to be a more important determinant of policy than the political stability of its East European allies. Moscow showed itself willing to use force to achieve its objectives in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, but analysts are not agreed either on the nature of those objectives o…
Soviet-East European Dilemmas
Soviet-East European Dilemmas: Coercion, Competition, and Consent
The Soviet Union in the Middle East
Soviet Foreign Policy towards Egypt
Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: The dynamics of influence
Journal Article Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: the dynamics of influence Get access Soviet policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan: the dynamics of influence. By Alvin Z. Rubinstein. New York: Praeger. 1982. Index. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 1983, Pages 150–…
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy-Brezhnev to Andropov
The Soviet polity in the modern era
Journal Article The Soviet polity in the modern era Get access The Soviet polity in the modern era. Edited by Erik P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird. New York: Aldine. 1984. 942pp. Index. $49.95. Pb.: $24.95. Karen Dawisha Karen Dawisha 1University of Princeton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619823 Published: 01…
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval
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