Dr Jakob Hauter

Email:
j.e.hauter@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Responsibilities:I am a postdoctoral research fellow working on a three-year project investigating the causes of Russia’s wars in Ukraine and elsewhere. I will also teach seminar groups on the first-year module PO1WAR (War and Warfare) in the spring semester.

Areas of interest

My wider research interests include Russian and Ukrainian politics, the causes of war, and the dissemination of information and disinformation via online media.

Research centres and groups

Centre for Global Security and Governance

Background

I received my PhD from University College London’s (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) in 2022. Previously, I studied International Relations and Contemporary European Studies in Dresden, Saint Petersburg, Bath, and Siena. I also worked as a Russian and Ukrainian Media and Current Affairs Analyst in the public and private sector.

Academic qualifications

PhD in Political Science

Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (AFHEA)

Master of Arts in Contemporary European Studies

Bachelor of Arts in International Relations

Awards and honours

My current research is supported by the Leverhulme Trust with an Early Career Fellowship

Selected publications

Books

Hauter, Jakob. 2023. Russia’s Overlooked Invasion: The Causes of the 2014 Outbreak of War in Ukraine’s Donbas. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. https://bsky.app/profile/hauterjakob.bsky.social/post/3luagtvwfuc2h
(also published in German in 2024 as Russlands unbemerkte Invasion: Die Ursachen des Kriegsausbruchs im ukrainischen Donbas im Jahr 2014)

Edited Volumes

Hauter, Jakob (ed.). 2021. Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014–2020. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. https://bit.ly/2021-donbas-volume

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Hauter, Jakob. 2021. “Forensic Conflict Studies: Making Sense of War in the Social Media Age.” Media, War & Conflict. 16 (2): 153-172. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352211037325

Hauter, Jakob. 2021. “How the War Began: Conceptualizing Conflict Escalation in Ukraine’s Donbas.” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 48 (2): 135-163. Available at: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763324-20201380

Hauter, Jakob. 2019. “Delegated Interstate War: Introducing an Addition to Armed Conflict Typologies.” Journal of Strategic Security 12 (4): 90–103. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.12.4.1756

Website Articles

“Frieden um welchen Preis?” Ukraine verstehen, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, April 2022. https://bit.ly/hauter-libmod-202204

“Putins Angriff auf die Ukraine und die erzwungene Rückkehr zur Logik des Kalten Krieges,” Ukraine-Analysen, Nr. 263, March 2022.
https://bit.ly/hauter-ukraine-202203

“Krieg und Frieden im Donbas: Lehren aus dem russischen Truppenaufmarsch,” Ukraine-Analysen, Nr. 251, May 2021. https://doi.org/10.31205/UA.251.03

“Ukraine: Rapid Escalation of Conflict in 2014 Has Lessons for Today,” The Conversation, April 2021. https://bit.ly/hauter-conversation-202104

Policy Papers

“‘Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained?’ The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the Effectiveness of the European Neighbourhood Policy,” IEP Policy Papers on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, No. 2, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, April 2013, https://bit.ly/hauter-iep-2013