Morten Bøås
Research Professor at NUPI
Areas of Expertise
Insurgencies & civil wars; asymmetrical warfare; society – society relations; fragile state, refugees & migrants
Languages
English
Morten Bøås is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He works on question concerning civil wars, insurgencies and asymmetrical warfare, and its humanitarian and political consequences. Morten has considerable fieldwork experience from conflict affected areas and utilize a broad scope of social science methods in his research. Morten has been the PI of two large consortiums funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, namely EUNPACK 2016-2019 and PREVEX 2020-2023.
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Resilience and wartime transformation: trust, geopolitics, and EU democracy promotion in Ukraine
Russia's full-scale invasion has reinforced Ukraine's civic resilience and democratic aspirations. The EU now faces the challenge of turning that public trust into lasting institutional reform.
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Trust, anger and the limits of EU democracy promotion
Jessica Hendrick is joined by Morten Bøås to go inside RE-ENGAGE’s fieldwork across six EU candidate countries—revealing what citizens actually trust, why anger matters more than apathy and what Brussels keeps getting wrong about democracy promotion
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How Moldova’s democracy prevailed over Russian interference
Russian influence characterized the election campaign in Moldova, both in the form of disinformation and control over access to energy. Nevertheless, democracy withstood the pressure. The explanation lies in the trust between people and between the people and the state. This should be taken into account in the assessment of European aid and cooperation.
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Why Ukraine will not fall
Ukraine remains standing thanks to its unwavering civilian resistance. At the same time, there is a growing need for more soldiers. This is the difficult equation that Ukraine's leadership must solve.
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Theory and methods – towards social theory?
This paper explores the relationship between theory and method and serves as a basis for further studies in the project's focus areas the Western Balkans and the Eastern Neighbourhood.
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Key concepts: Democracy and trust, hybrid regimes and resilience
This paper conducts the initial conceptualisation of the key analytical concepts of democracy, trust, hybrid regimes, and resilience.