• 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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  • Prof. Mälksoo speaks at the ‘NATO in the Huis’ in the Hague, 24 June 2025

    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…

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  • RITUAL DETERRENCE team at BISA 2025 Belfast

    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…

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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