• Maria Mälksoo presented at the symposia at Hokkaido University, Sapporo and Waseda University, Tokyo, December 2025

    Prof. Maria Mälksoo presented her work in progress on contested peacetiming in Ukraine at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2025 Winter International Symposium ‘Great Power Competition and the Survival of Small and Middle Powers: Perspectives from Eurasia and Beyond’ at the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan on 4 December 2025. The full symposium programme is available here.…

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  • Maria Mälksoo at the ‘European Deterrence in the Third Nuclear Age’ Workshop, 19-21 November 2025

    Prof. Mälksoo participated in the workshop ‘European Deterrence in the Third Nuclear Age’ at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK on 19- 21 November 2025. The workshop was organised by the ERC Third Nuclear Age Project and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. The workshop brought together 30…

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  • Cameron Hunter comments on China’s space debris incident for Al Jazeera News

    In the past week, China’s crewed space program experienced an incident involving a small piece of space debris. The capsule used to return the astronauts was damaged, and so the mission directors took the decision to keep the crew in orbit while an alternative plan was put into action. Dr Cameron Hunter was asked by…

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RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Contact Information
info@ritualdeterrence.eu

Principal Investigator
Prof. Maria Mälksoo

Project Officer
Lise Sonnichsen

Postal Address
University of Copenhagen
Department of Political Science
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 København K
Denmark

Contact Information
info@ritualdeterrence.eu

Principal Investigator
Prof. Maria Mälksoo

Project Officer
Lise Sonnichsen

Postal Address
University of Copenhagen
Department of Political Science
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 København K
Denmark