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Tracing Authoritarian Learning in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine
10 January 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
This event is part of the SSEES Research Student Seminar Series. Join us to hear SSEES research students discuss their projects.
This event is free.
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- All
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- Free
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SSEES
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34716 Taviton StreetLondonWC1H 0BW
With the breakdown, reversal and weakening of democracies across the globe, an increased understanding of authoritarian regimes is necessary. These regimes are offering an alternative model as democracy no longer appears the only-game-in-town. The need to understand authoritarian regimes and their operationalisation has never been more acute.
A key aspect of the survival of authoritarian regimes across the globe is due to how these regimes learn to keep power. Through an analysis of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine I shed light on how authoritarian regimes learn, what they learn and why they learn, providing some answers to these questions. By investigating these four cases I show that existing knowledge on how, what and why authoritarian regimes paints only part of the overall picture.
About the Speaker
Stephen Hall
PhD Candidate at UCL SSEES
Stephen Hall is a 1+3 ESRC funded PhD candidate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL). His PhD concentrates on authoritarian learning in the post-Soviet space. This remains his main focus, along with the politics of the post-Soviet region but he is also fascinated with wider topics on authoritarianism, learning and diffusion.