“Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion” by Prof. Karl Gustafsson from Stockholm University, Sweden and Prof. Maria Mälksoo from. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Karl Gustafsson
Karl Gustafsson is professor of international relations at Stockholm University . Karl’s research interests include security, power and the role of collective memory in International Relations. He is also interested in issues related to research design and how material generated on the internet can be used for IR research purposes. He has acquired several research grants, including a four-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for a project on apologies and recognition in international politics and another four-year grant from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for a project on knowledge, memory and power on the Internet in East Asia. Karl has previously held a post-doc position at Lund University and been a researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He has been a visiting researcher at Tokyo University, Osaka University, Keio University (Tokyo), Academia Sinica in Taipei and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Karl’s peer-reviewed article ‘Memory Politics and Ontological Security in Sino-Japanese Relations’ won the Wang Gungwu Prize for best article published in Asian Studies Review in 2014 and his doctoral dissertation won the Stockholm University Association’s award for best dissertation (out of 66) in the Social Sciences in 2011. He has published peer-reviewed journal articles in joiurnals such as International Studies Quarterly, Contemporary Security Policy, European Journal of International Relations, International Politics, International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Journal of International Relations and Development, Survival, European Political Science, Memory Studies, Review of International Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, China: An International Journal, Global Affairs, The Pacific Review and Asian Perspective.
Maria Mälksoo
Maria Mälksoo’s research foci are in Critical Security Studies (ontological security, securitization of historical memory); political anthropology (liminality, rituals), and the political practice of deterrence, with a focus on NATO’s eastern flank. Prof. Mälksoo is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant RITUAL DETERRENCE (Ritual Action: Making Deterrence Matter in International Security and Memory Politics, 2022-2027). She is also the PI of the University of Copenhagen team in the Volkswagen Foundation-supported MEMOCRACY consortium (The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics of Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past, 2021-2024). She is the author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries (Routledge, 2010); a co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012); an editor of the JIRD Special Issue “Uses of ‘the East’ in International Studies: provincializing IR from Central and Eastern Europe” (2022) and the Handbook on the Politics of Memory (Edward Elgar, 2023). Maria Mälksoo has been a visiting research fellow at the Centre of International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (2015), and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2012). She received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge (2008) and has previously worked at the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies (2016-2021); the University of Tartu, Estonia (2010-2016); International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn (2007-2010); the Estonian Ministry of Defence, and the Office of the President of Estonia. She was the Executive Secretary of the European International Studies Association (EISA) in 2018-2021, and the President of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) in 2019-2022. She is an Associate Editor of Review of International Studies (from 2024) and an editorial board member of the European Journal of International Relations, Global Studies Quarterly, Journal of Genocide Research and International Political Anthropology.
Erman Ermihan, Kadir Has University
Erman Ermihan is a PhD student at Kadir Has University, Department of International Relations. After completing his undergraduate studies in the same department at Istanbul Bilgi University, he received his master’s degree in Political Science from Sabancı University. His research interests include Turkey-European Union relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, and identity and emotions in foreign policy.
