The team of ERC Ritual Deterrence and the extended academic family of the project have published a Special Forum entitled ‘Ritual Action in World Politics’ in vol 6, no. 1 (January issue) of the International Studies Association’s fully open access journal Global Studies Quarterly, published by Oxford University Press. The forum was guest edited by Maria Mälksoo.

The Special Forum comprises of 13 articles:

1. Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen): The Logic of Ritual Action in International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag014
2. Jorg Kustermans (University of Antwerp): Is Ritual a Useful Resource? Instrumental and Non-Instrumental Interpretations of Ritual Action, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag013
3. Kjølv Egeland (NORSAR): Rituals in Nuclear Statecraft: Conjuring Conformity, Cohesion, and Cooperation, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag017
4. Cameron Hunter (University of Copenhagen): Ritualized Coordination in the PLA Rocket Force: Nuclear Deterrence, Control, and Sacrifice, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag018
5. Mariia Vladymyrova (University of Copenhagen): A Show of Force: The Ritualization of Russian Strategic Posturing in the Baltic Sea, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag012
6. Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv University): The War in Ukraine: Deterrence, Rituals, and Ontological Security, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag016
7. Andrew R. Hom (University of Edinburgh): Ritual Wartiming in Russia’s Three-day Special Military Operation, 2022-2025: “Everyone Must Feel Mobilized”, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag020
8. Vanessa F. Newby (Monash University) and Chiara Ruffa (Sciences Po, Paris): Rituals without Rapprochement? Managing Hostility at the Tripartite Meetings in the United Nations Mission in Lebanon, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag019
9. Juha A. Vuori (University of Turku): Review as Ritual: Maintaining and Disrupting Nuclear Deterrence through the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Process, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag021
10. Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po, Paris): Diplomatic Order: The Problem of Ritual Efficacy in International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag023
11. Thomas Fraise (University of Copenhagen): The Magicians of Nuclear Strategy: Ritualized Knowledge Production and the Origins of Strategic Nuclear Thought, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag015
12. Christian Bueger (University of Copenhagen): Sites of Ritualized Practice: Observations from Multi-National Military Gatherings and Naval Symposiums, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag022
13. Dorothy Noyes (Ohio State University): Ritual and the Life of International Orders, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag024