Daria Blinova
Dangerous Logic of Ambitions: Autocrats’ Quest for Historical Immortality
by Daria Blinova, PhD student, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware What do autocrats truly want? The theory of autocratic survival suggests that autocratic leaders aim to concentrate the power in their hands to maintain control over the society they…
The Erosion of the Nuclear Taboo in Contemporary Global Discourse
by Daria Blinova, PhD student, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware Since times of the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II the international community has adhered to unwritten norms against the use of nuclear weapons.…