🤝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. Read more 👇 shorturl.at/MjecL

🥳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👇 lnkd.in/d5FvkuZh

🤔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 👇 securityhub.ee/blog/scandin...

Best wishes from our team for the new school year! Happy Knowledge Day! We have some updates for you 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

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

📢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 securityhub.ee/news/between...

We have had a fantastic week at @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025 in #Belfast. To explore what our team has been up to, see 👇 shorturl.at/i47GR

👉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 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! shorturl.at/fT4Ek

⭐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! 🙌

📢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. 👇 shorturl.at/7bhvr

📢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 👇

👉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! www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

📢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

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: fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our very own @anderswivel.bsky.social published this fantastic article recently in Small States and Territories. Go give it a read! 👇 securityhub.ee/research/why...

✨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 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 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

❗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

🙌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. securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...

🙌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: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

Very interesting

📢 We have some exciting reads for you! 1. Our Researcher, Dr @louiseridden.bsky.social, recently published her article "Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection" in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Link here: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 1/2

Hey all! Happy Tuesday. We have an exciting update for you! 👇 ✨Last Thursday #mondo hosted and organized the first environmental justice conference in the Baltics, together with the #EstDev and #EstonianEnvironmentalCentre. More on this in the link 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

Today! Very exciting :) Please join us.

📢The #ceeshub is very excited to announce an open lecture by Prof Emilian Kavalski on April 7th! Title: "From a Buffer Zone to a Frontline Region? Unmapping Eastern Europe in a Multi-Order World" For more details, please see below: www.tlu.ee/en/yti/event...

✨Our team has been very busy this March. 🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia. Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

And this is our panelists yesterday! The discussion was very lively. Here is to critical relational security in #CEE Next: a panel today on relational IR #ISA2025

📣 We are very excited to be at #ISA2025 in Chicago! Our team will present today at 1:45 pm on "A Critical Relational Approach for Peace and Security in CEE," joined by our partners from #CopenhagenUniversity and #TampereUniversity. 1/2

🌻We had the great honor of hosting H.E. The Ambassador of Ukraine to Estonia, Maksim Kononenko, at #TallinnUniversity yesterday. The Ambassador delivered a powerful lecture in which he stressed the need for continuously battling Russian misinformation and info war abilities. 1/3

📣The #ceeshub team is excited to announce that the Ambassador of Ukraine to Estonia, H.E. Mr. Maksym Kononenko, will give a public lecture on Russia's war in hashtag #Ukraine on February 26th. 1/4

Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara ran a workshop last week at #TallinnUniversity. The workshop "Using embroidery to facilitate diverse social dialogue: learning from the (Un-)Stitching Gazes project in Colombia" allowed participants to engage embroidery as a method of participatory research. 1/4

🙌Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara gave a long-awaited talk yesterday at #TallinnUniversity and #CEEShub on the topic of "Creating Safer Space: Exploring unarmed, civilian-to-civilian protection amidst violent conflict." Dr @louiseridden.bsky.social and Dr John Buchanan acted as discussants 1/3

✨Join our department (International Relations) and Tallinn University as a postdoc! Apply for a fully funded grant writing camp in International Relations (IR) and Comparative Politics (CP) at the School of Governance, Law and Society (SOGOLAS). 1/3

This week, we are thrilled to introduce our new Associate Editor, @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social! She is an Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (@securityhub.ee) at Tallinn University.

✨Our researcher, Kevin Molloy, was also published by #Müürileht 💭Kevin is doing research on border spaces, focusing on Narva, an eastern-Estonian city bordering Russia. His photographic essay explores how place-making is the connection and recollection of symbolic narratives to specific landscapes.

Our co-directors, Dr @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social ky.social and Dr @benjaminklasche.bsky.social recently wrote an article for a reputable Estonian monthly publication #Müürileht, and it was published last week! 1/4

We had the distinct pleasure to attend and present at @hcas.bsky.social conference "Methodological Turns and Interpretive Twists in the Humanities and Social Sciences" last week. Our co-director and senior researcher, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, presented his and @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social work.

✨ We are so happy to be able to announce this and support the applicants! #TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF. www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...

🤔In #Tallinn day after tomorrow - February 12th - and don't know what to do? We do! 🤌 Join us for a fantastic open lecture by Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara on unarmed civilian protection, moderated by Drs Louise Ridden and John Buchanan. More info in the reposted post. 👇

We are at @hcas.bsky.social attending a fantastic conference on "Methodological Turns and Interpretive Twists in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our researchers are also presenting @wasiqsilan.bsky.social and @benjaminklasche.bsky.social blogs.helsinki.fi/methodologic...

Excited for the launch of #TallinnUniversity IR Society tomorrow. www.tlu.ee/en/events/ki...

✨We are so excited to have Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara of @interpolaber.bsky.social come and give an open lecture on her research titled Creating Safer Space: Exploring unarmed, civilian-to-civilian protection amidst violent conflict. She will be with us in #Tallinn on February 12th. 1/5

The team is back making plans for #2025. Looking forward to many new collaborations, articles, and impactful research.

Our co-directors @benjaminklasche.bsky.social @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and @tonicerkez.bsky.social reflected on the position of the #EstonianArtsAcademy to cut cooperating with the Shenkar University in Israel. The position caused an uproar in #Estonia 1/2 epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

✨New blog post on our site. Inspired by the #pluriversal perspectives on peace and security advocated by the Central Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub), we propose examining these issues through a different lens: the perspective of #Taiwan’s #Indigenous Peoples. securityhub.ee/blog/taiwan-...

[Introductory post] We are a group of researchers at Tallinn University supported by the EU Horizon fund which twinned us with #TampereUniversity and #UniversityofCopenhagen. Our work revolves around the concept of security from a CEE perspective. 1/3