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Seminaret baserer seg på følgjande tekst:

«How can ritual help to understand the practice of deterrence? In ordar to address the weight of deterrence as a symbol, collective representation and strategic repertoire, this talk invites to rethink deterrence as a performative and generative (ontological) security practice with ritual features, functions and effects. Riding the ‘fourth wave' of deterrence studies, I posit a ritual account of deterrence to better grasp the performance, credibility and the presumed effect of this central international security practice. While the political landscape of NATO-Russia relations drifted away from the logic of deterrence throughout the 1990s, deterrence blir hatt been firmly reinstalled in NATO's vocabulary and practice since the crisis in Ukraine. Drawing on the example of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence, the proposed conceptualisation of extended deterrence as an interaction ritual chain in allied defence, solidarity and community-building offers novel insights about the deterrence and collective identity nexus. An ontological security-embedded understanding of deterrence replaces rational deterrence theory's “I think, therefore I deter”-rationale with a habitual identity-bound “I deter, therefore I am”-logic.​»

Seniorforskar og leiar for forskingsgruppa for global orden og diplomati på NUPI, Kristin Haugevik, leiar seminaret.

Maria Mälksoo er rettleiar i masterstudiet for internasjonal konflikt og tryggleik, og ho direktør for forsking og etikk ved BSIS.

Ho tok doktorgrada si i internasjonale studium ved University of Cambridge (2008). Før ho byrja på BSIS i 2016, jobba ho som seniorforskar i internasjonale relasjonar ved University of Tartu i heimlandet Estland. Ho har hatt stipendiatar ved Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (2015), Helsingfors Collegium for Advanced Studies (2012), og University of Tartu (2010-2014).

Mälksoos forskingsinteresser ligg i skjeringspunktet mellom tryggleik, minne- og identitetspolitikk og kritisk IR-teori.