Ritual Action: Making Deterrence Matter in International Security and Memory Politics

Project Information

RITUAL DETERRENCE

Grant agreement ID: 101043468

DOI

10.3030/101043468

EC signature date 31 May 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 949 291,25

EU contribution

€ 1 949 291,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Book chapters (2)

Risk, Resilience, and Resistance

Author(s): Maria Mälksoo
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of NATO, 2025, ISBN 978-0-19-885119-6
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14929852

Resilience Is the New Black: NATO in and Beyond the Grey Zone

Author(s): Maria Mälksoo
Published in: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Resilience as Deterrence: Towards a Comprehensive Security Panorama, 2025, ISBN 978-1-64368-623-3
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/NHSDP250039

Peer reviewed articles (7)

International Affairs

Author(s): Maria Mälksoo
Published in: International Affairs, Issue 100 (2), 2024, ISSN 1468-2346
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Chatham House)
DOI: 10.1093/IA/IIAE008

Cooperation and Conflict

Author(s): Maria Mälksoo
Published in: Cooperation and Conflict, Issue Online First, 2024, ISSN 0010-8367
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/00108367241254307

The Logic of Ritual Action in International Relations

Author(s): Maria Mälksoo
Published in: Global Studies Quarterly, Issue 6, 2026, ISSN 2634-3797
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/ISAGSQ/KSAG014

International Studies Quarterly

Author(s): Karl Gustafsson, Maria Mälksoo
Published in: International Studies Quarterly, Issue 68(1), 2024, ISSN 1468-2478
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ISQ/SQAE006

Nuclearization and de-democratization: security, secrecy, and the French pursuit of nuclear weapons (1945–1974)

Author(s): Thomas Fraise
Published in: European Journal of International Relations, 2024, ISSN 1354-0661
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13540661241301648

The Magicians of Nuclear Strategy: Ritualized Knowledge Production and the Origins of Strategic Nuclear Thought

Author(s): Fraise, Thomas
Published in: Global Studies Quarterly, Issue 6, 2026, ISSN 2634-3797
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ISAGSQ/KSAG015

Existential silos: The compartmentalization of the futures of environmental change and the nuclear threat

Author(s): Sterre van Buuren; Thomas Fraise; Benoît Pelopidas
Published in: Futures, 2025, ISSN 1873-6378
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURES.2025.103671

Conference proceedings (1)

NATO Pirates in the Baltic Sea? Lawfare in Russian Deterrence Strategy

Author(s): Mariia Vladymyrova
Published in: Perpetual Conflict: Russia and the Struggle for European Security (The Conference on Russia Papers 2026), 2026, ISSN 2806-3910
Publisher: University of Tartu Press
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18702386