Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War?

Dr Jakob Hauter has been a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Reading in the UK since September 2025. He received his PhD from University College London’s (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies (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. More information about Hauter’s research is available on his personal Website: www.jakobhauter.co.uk.

Tymofii Brik is the rector at the Kyiv School of Economics and National coordinator of the European Social Survey in Ukraine. He received his PhD in social science from Carlos III of Madrid university, an MSc in sociology from Utrecht University and Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University. In 2018–2023, he had visiting positions  in Northwestern, Stanford, and NYU universities. His papers appeared in Governance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism. His paper “When church competition matters?”, published in Sociology of Religion, won the N. Panina award in 2018 by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.

Dr. Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at UCL SSEES. His publications include Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (2014), Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution (2005), and The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2002).