On 14th May, Cameron Hunter attended a workshop on Peacegaming at King’s College London, as part of KCL’s Wargames Week. The workshop aimed to bring together academics and practitioners to explore the possibilities of peacegaming as an emerging practice. Attendees represented a variety of universities, government departments, armed services and non-governmental organisations. Dr Hunter contributed his critical theoretic perspective on wargames, as well as practical experience in conducting them.
Month: May 2026
Maria Mälksoo at the Cambridge IR and History Conference, 15 May 2026
Prof. Maria Mälksoo presented her work on the visions of the Russo-Ukrainian postwar at the Cambridge International Relations and History Conference, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, on 15 May 2026. Organised by the Cambridge IR and History Working Group, the conference brought together scholars of International Relations, International Law and International History.
Maria spoke in the panel on “Imagining Futures: How do we think of normative futures?”. She discussed how the competing visions for peace in Ukraine are symptomatic of the present moment in international politics – where the Liberal International Order is in severe distress, with some open challengers and various less radically revisionist contesters who are still claiming to uphold the core principles of the UN Charter-based order in spirit, if not in practice.
Hacker la bombe ? Ce que l’IA Mythos révèle du pari de la dissuasion nucléaire
Op-ed in The Conversation France
Fraise, Thomas. “Hacker la bombe ? Ce que l’IA Mythos révèle du pari de la dissuasion nucléaire (To Hack the bomb? What Mythos IA reveals about the nuclear deterrence gamble)”, The Conversation France, May 7th, 2026, doi: https://doi.org/10.64628/AAK.awp597wau
Maria Mälksoo’s Keynote at the IOS Annual Conference 2026
Prof. Maria Mälksoo delivered a keynote lecture “The New Deterrence Agents from Europe’s East” at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Annual Conference “From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and Southeast Europe” in Regensburg, Germany on 23 April 2026.
The talk examined how Russia’s war against Ukraine has served as a catalyst for the Baltic states and Poland in revitalising the concept and practice of deterrence in the two realms where it has historically had notable currency: in international security politics and international criminal law. Drawing on the Ritual Deterrence project findings, Maria showed how NATO’s post-post-Cold War reinvention of deterrence has been actively nudged by the recipient states of the North Atlantic Alliance’s forward presence in NATO’s eastern flank. The talk further engaged the Baltic diplomatic initiatives for creating an international special tribunal to prosecute Russian crime of aggression against Ukraine as a practice of deterrence by means of accountability.
