Can democracies preserve their norms and values from increasing attacks  by understanding how authoritarian regimes learn? This is the question  posed by Dr Stephen G. F. Hall in his forthcoming book. Looking at two  established authoritarian regimes, Belarus, and Russia, he identifies  clear signs of collaboration between authoritarian-minded elites, in  developing survival best practices and learning from previous regimes in  their own countries. For authoritarian-minded elites the main  imperative is survival, and after that propagation of their values to  like-minded regimes.   

Dr Stephen Hall is a Lecturer (and Assistant Professor) in Russian and  Post-Soviet Politics, at the Department of Politics, Languages, and  International Studies at the University of Bath. His specialist field is  Russian & Post-Soviet Politics, and his research focuses on the  authoritarian regimes in the post-Soviet space, especially Belarus,  Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. He completed his PhD in 2020 at the School  of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and he  has been published in various journals including East European  Politics, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Russian Politics, Problems of  Post-Communism, Post-Communist Economies, and Europe-Asia Studies.  

Books:  Authoritarian International (2023 - available for pre-order) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authoritarian-international/4B49766C0CC9ACE7F2522ECB5AB804B8#fndtn-metrics