• Maria Mälksoo’s invited lecture ‘The Baltic Way of Deterrence’ in the Indiana University Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center lecture series ‘Security across Central Eurasia in the 21st Century: From the Baltic Sea to the Mongolian Steppe’

    Prof. Maria Mälksoo gave an invited talk ‘The Baltic Way of Deterrence’ in the Indiana University Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC) lecture series ‘Security across Central Eurasia in the 21st Century: From the Baltic Sea to the Mongolian Steppe’ on 12 November 2025 on Zoom. This lecture focused on the Baltic ways…

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  • Maria Mälksoo featured in the Exciting Minds Exhibition by the Estonian Research Council

    Prof. Maria Mälksoo and the RITUAL DETERRENCE project are featured in the exhibition ‘Exciting Minds’, initiated by the Estonian Research Council, and featuring the researchers from Estonia who have been awarded grants by the European Research Council (ERC). See here.

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  • Prof. Mälksoo’s MAPIR Keynote at the University of Tübingen

    Prof. Maria Mälksoo gave an invited lecture to the students and academic staff of the MAPIR (Master in Peace Research and International Relations) programme, Department of Political Science, University of Tübingen on 5 November 2025. The keynote was titled ‘Peacetiming for Future Deterrence’. POSTER-IK_051125_MAPIR

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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