• Maria Mälksoo at the EISA PEC2025 in Bologna

    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’).…

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  • Maria Mälksoo in the Review of International Studies podcast on rituals and IR

    Maria Mälksoo spoke about her editor’s selection of articles on ritual published in the Review of International Studies at the journal’s podcast, hosted by Sebastian Kaempf. The episode is available here. .  

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  • Prof. Mälksoo presented work in progress at EWIS 2025

    Prof. Maria Mälksoo presented her book chapter in progress ‘Making Deterrence Real: Wartiming NATO’s Readiness in the Eastern Flank’ at the European Workshops in International Studies 2025, held at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland on 2-4 July 2025. The workshop was entitled ‘Reconfiguring Collective Deterrence and Defence on NATO’s Northern and Eastern Flanks: Towards a…

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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