CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Balial, Nikkon |
|---|---|
| Title | The Gatekeeper of Sovereignty: Analyzing Russian Framing of The Syrian Intervention |
| Summary | The Kremlin’s involvement in the Syrian civil conflict was a foreign policy move that evolved as a matter of concern not only for the Western countries but also for the international community, in general. The Russian act of justifying its involvement in Syria has been a recurrent theme of debate and contention, leaving behind confused analysts, scholars and policy makers. The goal of this thesis is to highlight and analyze how the Russian intervention in Syria is being framed through speech acts, UN statements and interviews by Russian leaders such as President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Permanent Representatives Vassily Nebenzia and Vitaly Churkin internationally as well as at home to the Russian public. In this academic work, I claim that Russia uses the pro-sovereignty argument to justify its intervention in Syria. I conclude that President Putin and other Russian spokespersons are using the pro-sovereignty discourse of intervention rather than the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ reasoning for justifying their involvement in Syria. This paper opens up further scope for future research on the significant role that framing can play in analyzing foreign interventions. Finally, this work also emphasizes that the same pro-sovereignty argument has been used by Russia before during other instances of interventions, and thus can be used for suggesting a broader pattern of behavior from the Russian end. |
| Supervisor | Jenne, Erin Kristin |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/balial_nikkon.pdf |
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