Why People Would (Not) Fight for Their Own Country in a War? NATO Member States at a Cross-Section
Aim
Description
This project will put a claim for one of the most extensive studies on willingness to fight for one’s own country.
The project will, based on nationally representative surveys in all NATO member states, determine the levels of willingness to fight for own country, as well as identify the factors and actors contributing to the willingness in NATO member states.
The findings will be generalizable beyond NATO and will contribute to the research agenda on willingness to fight for one’s own country with new hypotheses and recommendations.
Co-operation partner
Project team
Left to right: project leader Māris Andžāns, participants Kaspars Ģērmanis and Juris Pupčenoks
Presentations at Scientific Conferences
25.04.2025. Andžāns, M. Willingness to fight for Latvia after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 16th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE 2025), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 24–26 April 2025. Read more: LinkedIn. |  |
19.06.2025. Andžāns, M. Who will fight for Latvia? Evidence from quantitative data collected between 2022 and 2024. International research conference of the Security and Strategic Research Centre of the National Defense Academy of Latvia Europe between war and peace: military technology, personnel and willingness to defend, Latvian War Museum, Riga, 19 June 2025. Read more: LinkedIn. |  |
11.09.2025. Pupčenoks, J. Do Strategic Narratives Shape Views on the Societal Level? American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 11–14 September 2025. LinkedIn. |  |
10.10.2025. Pupčenoks, J. Who Believes in Russian Disinformation on Ukraine in Canada? Strategic Narratives and Defense Attitudes. Workshop Disinformation, Propaganda, and Russia’s War on Ukraine, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 10 October 2025. Event description. |  |
05.11.2025. Andžāns, M. How many residents of Latvia would fight for Latvia? Quantitative data in the context of NATO member states. Guest evening of the Latvian National Soldiers’ Association in Riga. LinkedIn. |  |
Scientific Publications
Schulte, F., Pupčenoks, J., Andžāns, M. Cultural Memory and the Minority Effect in (Un-)Willingness to Fight for the Country: Evidence from Russian Speakers in Latvia. European Journal of International Security, 2025, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.10026
