RESEARCH INTERESTS
Military patriotism, society-centric warfare, Russian occupation regime, identity and conflict, regional identity.
PROJECTS
- Contested Ukraine. Military Patriotism, Russian Influence, and Implications for European Security, 2021-25, The research council of Norway, Contested Ukraine. Military patriotism, Russian Influence and Implications for European Security – Norwegian Armed Forces (forsvaret.no).
- Total Defence Cooperation with Ukraine, 2020-5, Norwegian Ministry of Defence. Total Defence cooperation with Ukraine – Forsvaret.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Bækken, Håvard. 2025. “Forging Frontline Russians: Militarized Patriotism and Identity Policy in the Occupied Donbas”. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 58 (1), 28–52. https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2024.2110253