Prof. Mälksoo participated at the 18th Pan-European Conference on International Relations of the European International Studies Association (EISA PEC2025) at the University of Bologna, Italy on 26-29 August 2025. She presented two empirical chapters from her book project in progress (‘Making Deterrence Real: Wartiming NATO’s Readiness in the Eastern Flank’ and ‘Peacetiming for Future Deterrence’). She further contributed to two roundtables on the role of the emerging Nordic-Baltic nexus in the new European security order and the prospects of the critical security approaches in Europe in the present, respectively.