Håvard Bækken
Norsk
English
Unit
Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
Norwegian Defence Language and Intelligence Academy
Position
Professor
Professor
Email:
havbakken@mil.no
ORCID:
0000-0002-8961-3078
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Håvard Bækken is Professor of Russian Area Studies and has been affiliated with the NDUC since 2015.
Bækken’s research focus is state-society relations in Russia and in the occupied parts of Ukraine, with emphasis on ideological production: the politics of memory, militarism and military patriotic education of Russia of children and youth. Bækken is heading the R&D-group “Russia at War” at SESK. His previous research includes several publications on quasi-legal practices in Russia.
Bækken teaches extensively and is responsible for courses on Russian politics and society as well as on Russian history and its uses.
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- Russia
- Ukraine
- Russian history
- militarism
- civil-military relations