Prof. Maria Mälksoo spoke at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) panel ‘Taming the Bear: Countering Russia’s Enduring Threat’ at the strategic dialogue hub ‘NATO in the Huis’ organised by the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael on the occasion of the 2025 NATO Summit and NATO Public Forum in the Hague, Netherlands, 24-25 June 2025.
Half of the RITUAL DETERRENCE team presented research at the 50th anniversary conference of the British International Studies Association (BISA) in Belfast, UK. The conference took place on 18-20 June 2025.
Prof. Maria Mälksoo presented a paper ‘Envisioning Future Deterrence: Peace, Accountability and the End Times after the Russo-Ukrainian War’ in the panel investigating temporal security in international relations. She further participated in a roundtable on critical perspectives on NATO and another dedicated to Georg Löfflmann’s book ‘The Politics of Antagonism – Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity’ (Routledge, 2024).
Dr Cameron Hunter presented a paper ‘Ritual Interaction Chains in US-China Lunar Competition’ in the panel on a new space race convened by the BISA Astropolitics Working Group. He further chaired a panel ‘Middle Space Powers and Non-State Actors in Outer Space’ and presented at the ERC Third Nuclear Age Roundtable on understanding and addressing contemporary nuclear challenges.
(Image below courtesy of Lauren Rogers, picturing part of the editorial team of BISA’s flagship journal Review of International Studies meeting in Belfast).
(Image below courtesy of Bleddyn Bowen, picturing Third Nuclear Age Roundtable participants).
Dr Cameron Hunter attended the long-running Wargames Week conference at King’s College London. He was invited to discuss how to model nuclear weapons and emerging technologies in professional wargaming. While attending the event, Cameron also had the chance to participate in a Taiwan contingency crisis game run by Evan D’Alessandro.