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“Ja nõnda eksleb see saar mööda omaenda vaikust”/Tõnu Õnnepalu, Insula Deserta

What are the effects of the nuclearisation of states, of IR and of democracies? Join the team and Paul Edwards to hear about new findings, data and pedagogical tools at 2pm Paris time, on the 21st on zoom sciencespo.fr/agenda/fr/even… Luke Kemp Neil Renic BISA Global Nuclear Order Rhys Crilley

EuroStorie research seminar 30.1.2025: Maria Mälksoo #science #events #scienceevents lifescience.net/events/73513/e…

We’re going to Belfast! A stellar lineup of panels by the BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group, a book Roundtable for ‘The Politics of Antagonism’, and a cracking panel on security & temporality in IR with Malte Riemann, Maria Mälksoo, Andy Hom, Dr Alex Homolar and Norma Rossi are coming to @ #BISA2025.

Come work with us! We are hiring a PostDoc researcher on tech politics starting in July! Please pread widely!

My Verfassungsblog contribution on the Baltic politics of accountability for RU as deterrence is out (shorturl.at/KKWXN), just in time of the recent breakthrough with the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against UA. MEMOCRACY Project European Research Council (ERC) RITUAL DETERRENCE

Grateful to Clingendael Institute and Bob Deen for inviting my input in a superbly moderated panel—and supremely relevant, as it turned out—on 'Deal-Makers and Deal-Breakers: Negotiating an End to Russia's War on Ukraine' at the Munich Security Conference last week. (1/2)

Fresh off the press: a new European Research Council (ERC) RITUAL DETERRENCE offshoot by Maria Mälksoo on 'Risk, Resilience, and Resistance' in magisterial The Oxford Handbook of NATO, gracefully edited by James Sperling and Mark Alan Webber. shorturl.at/aaRRr

We are all Zelensky.

Chapeau to the editors Pål Røren and Paul Beaumont of Cooperation and Conflict SI on status symbols, now out in print.👏 Very happy to be part of it, in such a great company. My article is on American forces as deterrence icons (and SS) in NATO's eastern flank: doi.org/10.1177/001083…

If you are preparing to publish your first article, this PGN session is for you! Prof. Maria Mälksoo ( Maria Mälksoo ) will unpack the intricacies of academic publishing, offering guidance for PhDs and ECRs. Register here: bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… BISA - British International Studies Association RIS Juliet Dryden / BISA

Time out of time in Jutland: Lindholm Høje, the sand-buried St Laurence Church, Rubjerg Knude Fyr.

Hard insights from the GOP: 'I could foresee a situation where Putin invades ... the Russian-speaking portions of Estonia and dares Trump to commit U.S. troops to push out the Russian army. In that scenario, I do not believe Trump would support invoking Art V'.

Hello from our editorial team! A gentle reminder that we are now on both bluesky and LinkedIn. Follow us there! Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/risjnl… LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/review-o…

Time well spent with the RIS podcast.

Thanks to Clingendael Institute and Munich Security Conference for the opportunity for FIIA to host a discussion on 'Taming the Bear: Countering Russia's Enduring Threat.' Thank you also to our excellent panelists Mark Galeotti Maria Mälksoo Matti Pesu Fredrik Löjdquist 🙏 #NATOSummit #NATO

Yesterday, FIIA hosted a panel at the NATO in the Huis dialogue hub alongside #NATOSummit2025 in The Hague. The discussion explored Europe’s ability to deter Russia amid shifting alliances and evolving security threats. Thank you to our expert panellists and all who joined us!

🎉 Great News 🎉 The RIS 2024 Journal Impact Factor has increased from 3.2 to 3.7! We owe this to our fantastic authors and reviewers, who continue to improve our journal with their submissions and service.

How’s that for an afternoon office? A bittersweet goodbye to lovely Kraków, concluding another spirited #EWIS2025, this time on NATO’s eastern flank - 6 years after the previous iteration Uniwersytet Jagielloński.

Here’s a new Review of International Studies podcast episode on rituals and IR for your Sunday morning with late coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. Graciously hosted by Sebastian Kaempf, it features a selection of the thematical articles published in @RISjrnl by yours truly.