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#estonia #rsr #tartuülikool | CEEShub at Tallinn University 🤝We are building bridges with the broader academic and student community in #Estonia. ✨This last Saturday, our Co-Director and HoD Benjamin Klasche was invited by the University of Tartu Internationa...

🤝We are building bridges with the broader academic and student community in #Estonia.

💡Our Co-Director and HoD Benjamin Klasche led a workshop on "Critical-Relational approaches to security and peace in CEE" for a selected group of #TartuUniversity students.

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🥳Immensely excited about our conference "Between Peripheries" in January 2026 (22-25). For those accepted, please fill in your registration by the 10th of October.

You can find the preliminary program of the conference👇

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🤔Ever wondered how small states exercise their agency in time of economic and security dependency?

💡Well, Niklas Klein Nielsen and @anderswivel.bsky.social have some answers for you in their new blog post for our website.

Check it out 👇

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#eisa2025 | CEEShub at Tallinn University 🥳🎉The CEEShub team congratulates the 1st of September to all the academics, students, teachers, administrative and support staff. Happy Knowledge Day! We have some updates for you! 1. Department of ...

Best wishes from our team for the new school year! Happy Knowledge Day!

We have some updates for you 👇

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Can including far right parties in government reduce their electoral appeal? The fabulous @anninahermes.bsky.social will show today #epsa2025 that this strategy does not work @epsanet.bsky.social @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

“Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

📢Five more days to go until our CfP deadline!

It will be a 💥conference.

- No registration fee
- Lunch and coffee breaks covered
- A free cultural program (i.e., sauna!)
- Scholar/activist workshops
- Several travel bursaries for scholars from CEE and GS

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🎊What a week at #BISA2025 in #Belfast! | CEEShub at Tallinn University 🎊What a week at #BISA2025 in #Belfast! 🙌Members of IR department from Tallinn University presented on a variety of fascinating topics. We are very proud to have had strong representation in Belfast, ...

We have had a fantastic week at @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025 in #Belfast.

To explore what our team has been up to, see 👇

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👉While our team are attending #BISA2025, celebrating its 50th anniversary, we wanted to remind you of our Call for Papers, which runs until July 1st. | CEEShub at Tallinn University 👉While our team are attending #BISA2025, celebrating its 50th anniversary, we wanted to remind you of our Call for Papers, which runs until July 1st. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone worki...

👉While our team are attending @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025, we wanted to remind you of our Call for Papers, which runs until July 1st.

This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone working in IR and on critical and relational security.

❗More here: shorturl.at/48IOy

🎊This past week has been intense, funny, and above all educational! | CEEShub at Tallinn University 🎊This past week has been intense, funny, and above all educational! Our MSCA Grant Writing Workshop participants learned about the different application components, such as Excellence and Impact, and ...

This has been an intense, funny, and above all educational week.

MSCA Grant Writing Workshop participants learned about the different application components, such as Excellence and Impact, and how to maximize their value-added.

Thank you to the experts and our participants!

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⭐Our #MSCA workshop, preparing participants to successfully run for the European and/or Global Fellowships is running very well.

💡Today, a session by Professor Maria Mälksoo on Impact and Implementation sections.

Fantastic sessions ahead! 🙌

such as liberation or emancipation. Sachiho argues that the case of Japan, which considers itself to be a 'peace state,' complicates the concept of peace, surpassing the conventional understanding of peace as pacifism. [3/3]

The blog post argues that while there appears to be a consensus that peace is universally desired, the disproportionate use of ‘peace’ in the political discourse of the Global North has faced criticism for promoting a Western consensus over potentially more progressive concepts, [2/3]

Japan’s Contextual and Relational Peace - CEEShub - Central and Eastern… | CEEShub at Tallinn University 📢In anticipation of our Call for Papers deadline (July 1st, see further 👇!), we have a fantastic new blog by SACHIHO FUNABASHI (船橋 幸穂) on "Japan's Contextual and Relational Peace" that y...

📢In anticipation of our Call for Papers deadline (July 1st, see via the link), we have a fantastic new blog by SACHIHO FUNABASHI (船橋 幸穂) on "Japan's Contextual and Relational Peace" that you should go read immediately. 👇

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⭐And no registration fees!

📢We have an exciting offer for early-careers from CEE and scholars from the Global South.

👉We are able to offer 10 travel bursaries (5 × €500 for early-career scholars from CEE; 5 × €750 for scholars from the Global South) for our conference.

See👇for information on how to apply and the conditions.

Fantastic thoughts about small states 👇

Congratulations, Élise! We are sure this will be an exciting step in your career and life.

Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub… | CEEShub at Tallinn University ❗It's the time of the week for us to remind you about this exciting Call for Papers! We are organizing a fantastic conference in January 2026 and want you to contribute. 📢Deadline for the CfP: Jul...

👉A gentle reminder (or a rough nudge?) for you to apply for our Call for Papers: due July 1st 2025. We are organizing a fabulous conference in January 2026 and want you to come!

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#cost #ceeshub | CEEShub at Tallinn University 📢Our Co-Director and Researcher Dr Birgit Poopuu has recently attended a conference 'Reimagining PEACE 2025,' held at the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels 🇧🇪. 🎊This was a kick-off confere...

📢Our Co-Director and Researcher @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social Poopuu has recently attended a conference 'Reimagining PEACE 2025,' held at the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels 🇧🇪.

Birgit co-runs WG2 (Feminist Peace) #COST project 'Peace Research.' @eliseferon.bsky.social

More info: shorturl.at/R0Ll4

Postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis

The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31:
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Why small states offer answers to important questions in international relations: Rethinking power and agency - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Highlights Studying small states is important for answering big and important questions in international relations, such as ‘what is power?’ and ‘what is agency?’. Small state agency is best understoo...

Our very own @anderswivel.bsky.social published this fantastic article recently in Small States and Territories.

Go give it a read! 👇

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✨Reposting this wonderful announcement regarding the Call for Papers for our "Between Peripheries" conference.

❗Please share and apply.

Deadline: July 1st.

🙌We are incredibly proud of our researcher Timothy Anderson who just last… | CEEShub at Tallinn University 🙌We are incredibly proud of our researcher Timothy Anderson who just last week won the prestigious GLOBALCIT - Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship. The award was present...

We are incredibly proud of our researcher Timothy Anderson, who won a fantastic award last week at @eui-eu.bsky.social for his paper - 'Civilizational Citizenship: Geopolitics and the Remaking of Belonging in Estonia.'

For more info, please see the link 👇

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And indeed, if you are a PhD candidate or an early-career, please send in your paper abstract. For more information, check the link!

🙌We are excited to have you join us and listen to our amazing keynote speakers Madina Tlostanova and Nivi Manchanda, as well as our distinguished roundtable participants Anna M. Agathangelou and Olga Burlyuk.

Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2

👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.

✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

Important work

A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests? - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub This blog post is based on an exceptional student assignment for the course “Perspectives on Global Security” taught in the International Relations MA program at Tallinn University. Hans’ assignment w...

🙌We are so proud of our students!

✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces.

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Hello! Thanks for this.

We are still looking into this. We are thinking of either doing a hybrid model or offering bursaries but we cannot confirm it as of now. We will update on this as soon as we have more information.

Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

🙌Our team is overjoyed to announce the 1st International Conference of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub, titled "Between Peripheries: Critical-Relational Security from CEE and the Global South."

Call for papers out May 6th.

More info:

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