Introduction : a contextual overview -- Measuring authoritarian tendencies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine -- Learning from external failure -- Learning from internal failure -- Learning from external and internal success -- The role of regional organisations in authoritarian learning -- External and internal learning in state institutions -- How external and internal informal networks shape learning in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine
Summary
Focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe, Hall argues that democracies can preserve their norms and values by better understanding how authoritarian regimes learn
