Political scientist
Maria Mälksoo is a senior lecturer in international security at the University of Kent. She has been a senior research fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, and has lectured at the London Business School. She has published research on international relations and articles in Diplomaatia.
Author's articles
EleVant100, or How to Explain Pictures to a Live Hare
Estonia must stand the test of time in the vortex of global life and move on
Read moreCyber threats, energy security and NATO’s Article 5
ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo presented her paper on the possibility of regarding cyber and energy security challenges in the context…
Read moreMaria Mälksoo’s monograph The Politics of Becoming European
ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo launched her new book The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic post-Cold…
Read moreMaria Mälksoo published in the European Journal of International Relations
ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo has published an article, “The Memory Politics of Becoming European: The East European Subalterns and the…
Read moreContributions by ICDS researchers published in a special issue of Akadeemia
ICDS researchers published three articles in a recent special issue of Akadeemia (9/2009) that focuses on security matters.
Read moreBook review: Monumentaalne konflikt: mälu, poliitika ja identiteet tänapäeva Eestis
Book review: Pille Petersoo & Marek Tamm (eds.), Monumentaalne konflikt: mälu, poliitika ja identiteet tänapäeva Eestis (Tallinn: Varrak, 2008), Journal…
Read moreFrom de-securitisation to re-securitisation: Sub-regional multilateralism around the Baltic Sea
This paper traces the development of sub-regional multilateralism around the Baltic Sea from the building of regional security via de-securitisation…
Read moreLiminality and Contested Europeanness: Conflicting Memory Politics in the Baltic Space
Maria Mälksoo has published a book chapter titled as „Liminality and Contested Europeanness: Conflicting Memory Politics in the Baltic Space“…
Read moreEurope’s new vanguard or the old ‘security modernists’ in a fancy dress? The Baltic states against the images of Eastern Europe in the EU
The ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo's attempt to map the Baltic security imaginaries along the modernist-postmodernist axis was recently published in…
Read morePolicy paper on NATO’s new strategic concept
NATO’s current strategic concept was approved in 1999, yet many pivotal events that have had a dramatic impact on NATO…
Read more08.08.2008 and the Emergence of a New Security Paradigm in the West
Russia’s war against Georgia should make even the most hardened sceptics and the most optimistic flower children realise that today…
Read moreThe Discourse of Communist Crimes in the European Memory Politics of World War II
Paper presented at the Ideology and Discourse Analysis conference
Read moreOn and off the border of Europe
An article by ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo, discussing East Europeans’ experience of liminal Europeanness, appeared in the 2007 Yearbook of…
Read moreThe First Lady of the Baltic ‘Memory Offensive’
The politics of history pursued by Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is not another manifestation of a pathology unique to Eastern Europe, but…
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