Jakob Hauter

Dr Jakob Hauter will join the University of Reading in September as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching the causes of Russia's wars in Ukraine and beyond. He received his PhD from UCL SSEES in 2022. Previously, he studied International Relations and Contemporary European Studies in Dresden, Saint Petersburg, Bath, and Siena. He also worked as a Russian and Ukrainian media and current affairs analyst in the public and private sector. He is the author of the monograph "Russia’s Overlooked Invasion: The causes of the 2014 outbreak of War in Ukraine’s Donbas" and the editor of the collected volume "Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014–2020." He has also published papers in the Journal of Strategic Security, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and Media, War & Conflict.