Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DICTAPLOMACY (The international dimensions of authoritarian regime survival: comparing “dictaplomatic” strategies in post-Soviet Eurasia)

DICTAPLOMACY investigated an understudied dimension of authoritarianism – the use autocrats make of diplomacy for regime-survival. The project analysed the foreign policy strategies and “dictaplomatic” tactics of authoritarian regimes in post-Soviet Eurasia with the aim...