Articles and Blog
“How Reliable Are Wartime Polls in Ukraine?” (with John O’Loughlin, Kit Rickard, and Gerard Toal), PONARS Memo, Feb. 15, 2023. Article here.
“Putins krig i Ukraina har forsterket vanlige folks vestlige orientering” (with Marianne Dahl), Aftenposten, Jan. 11, 2023 (in Norwegian). Article here.
“Putin’s Plan to Stop Ukraine Turning to the West Has Failed: Our Survey Shows Support for Nato Is at an All-time High” (with John O’Loughlin, Kit Rickard, and Gerard Toal), The Conversation, Jan. 4, 2023. Article here.
“The State of the World” (with Lisa Vanhala and Meg Russell), UCL Uncovering Politics Podcast, Oct. 7, 2022. Available here.
“Ukraine: Most People Refuse to Compromise on Territory, but Willingness to Make Peace Depends on Their War Experiences: New Survey” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Conversation, June 15, 2022. Article here.
“Hva vil folket i Ukraina?” Aftenposten, March 1, 2022 (in Norwegian). Article here.
“What Do People in Ukraine Want?” UCL Conflict & Change, Feb. 25, 2022. Article here.
“Legacies of Armed Conflict in Northern Ireland” (with Kit Rickard), UCL Uncovering Politics podcast, Dec. 2, 2021. Available here.
“Punishment Attacks and Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland” (with Kit Rickard), Peace in Pod Podcast, Peace Research Institute Oslo, May 13, 2021. Available here.
“Northern Ireland: How to Understand the Influence of Paramilitary Groups” (with Kit Rickard), The Conversation, April 12, 2021. Article here.
“Capturing the Mood on Both Sides of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict in the Donbas” (with John O’Loughlin, Gerard Toal, and Gwendolyn Sasse), Global Voices, February 17, 2021. Article here.
“A New Survey of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict Finds Deeply Divided Views in the Contested Donbas Region” (with John O’Loughlin, Gerard Toal, and Gwendolyn Sasse), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, February 12, 2021. Article here.
“Contentious Politics under Covid-19” (with Nils Metternich and Katerina Tertytchnaya), UCL Uncovering Politics Podcast, Jan. 14, 2021. Available here.
“Nagorno-Karabakh: What Do Residents of the Contested Territory Want for their Future?” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Conversation, October 12, 2020. Article here.
“The Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh is about Local Territories and Wider Rivalries” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, October 2, 2020. Article here.
“Is Belarus in the Midst of a Generational Upheaval?” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), Global Voices, September 17, 2020 . Article here.
“What’s Driving the Belarus Protests?” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, August 21, 2020. Article here.
“Governments Around the World Are Restricting Rights, Using the Pandemic as Cover” (with Neil Mitchell and Hannah Smidt), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, May 6, 2020. Article here.
“Kazakhs Are Weary of Neighbours Bearing Gifts” (with Marlene Laruelle, John O’Loughlin, and Gerard Toal), Open Democracy, April 30, 2020. Article here.
“Are Some NGOs Really ‘Foreign Agents’? Here’s What People in Georgia and Ukraine Say” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), Open Democracy, April 16, 2020. Article here.
“To Russia with Love” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal). Foreign Affairs, April 3, 2020. Article here. Response here.
“Six Years and $20 Billion in Russian Investment Later, Crimeans Are Happy with Russian Annexation” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, March 18, 2020. Article here.
“Is Ukraine Caught between Europe and Russia? We Asked Ukrainians This Important Question” (with John O’Loughlin and Gerard Toal), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, February 26, 2020. Article here.
“With Politicians Who Can’t Be Bothered to Read Peace Agreements, No Wonder Brexit Negotiations Are Such a Mess” (with Kit Rickard), The Independent, February 2, 2019. Article here.
“Why Changing the Good Friday Agreement Because of Brexit Is Such a Dangerous Idea” (with Kit Rickard), The Conversation, January 28, 2019. Article here.
“What the People of Nagorno-Karabakh Think about the Future of their Homeland” (with Lee J.M. Seymour), The Conversation, April 20, 2016. Article here.
“How ISIS Rule and Mobilisation Matters for the Military Response to the Paris Attack,” UCL European Institute blog, December 16, 2015. Article here.
“The Problem with Fragmented Insurgencies” (with Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham and Lee J.M. Seymour), The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, May 13, 2015. Article here.
“Islamic State: No-one Wants to Talk to Terrorists, but We Always Do—and Sometimes it Works” (with Govinda Clayton), The Conversation, October 14, 2014. Article here.
“Foreign Fighters Don’t Always Help,” The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, May 28, 2014. Article here.
“Splittet opposisjon,” Aftenposten, Nov. 19, 2012 (in Norwegian).
“When the Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Why Rebels Sometimes Target Their Own.” Talk at TEDxUCL, June 2012. Talk here.
“Folkets makt: Hva kan revolusjonene i Øst-Europa i 1989 fortelle oss om dagens demonstrasjoner i Egypt?” Verdens Gang, Feb. 3, 2011 (in Norwegian).
Organization of Public and Practitioner Events
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “The Future of Protest,” Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, June 2022.
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “State-Citizen Interactions during and after Violence,” Conflict & Change and Global Governance Institute, University College London, June 2019. See a summary of the event here.
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “Challenges to Global Governance: Conflict, Contagion, and Citizens’ Rights,” Conflict & Change and Global Governance Institute, University College London, February 2019.
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “Conflict and Governance: Working with Informal Institutions during and after War,” Conflict & Change and Global Governance Institute, University College London, June 2018.
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “Institutions in Conflicted and Fragile States,” Conflict & Change and Global Governance Institute, University College London, October 25, 2017. See a summary of the event here.
Organized academic/practitioner workshop on “Restrictions on Civil Society and the Free Flow of Information,” Conflict & Change and Global Governance Institute, University College London, May 9, 2017. See a policy brief based on the event here.
Organized stakeholder workshop on “Perceptions of Security and Governance in de facto and Partially Recognized States,” University College London, September 11-12, 2014. See summary of the event here.
Kristin M. Bakke 