CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Bordin, Greta |
|---|---|
| Title | Legitimation Pattern: A Comparative Foreign Political Discourse Analysis of the Russian Interventions in Syria (2015) and Ukraine (2022) |
| Summary | Over the last decade, the Russian Federation has been engaged in multiple external military interventions that have piqued academic interest in examining the political discourse employed by Russian political actors to justify foreign policy actions. More precisely, in the aftermath of the 2014 Russian military incursion in Ukraine and the subsequent 2015 intervention in Syria, attention has been paid to exploring narratives, strategies and frames employed to justify these actions. This thesis contributes to the extant scholarly literature by proposing a systematic analysis of argumentation tactics utilised to justify the use of force during Russian military interventions in the Syrian Arab Republic in September 2015 and, more recently, in Ukraine in February 2022. Specifically, the thesis seeks to identify the strategies employed during the construction of discourses of legitimation utilising a comparative multi-method case study of the Russian official foreign political discourse. 25 transcripts by Russian President Vladimir Putin published four months preceding the official declaration of intervention on the Kremlin’s official website are analysed through a combination of Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) and legitimation categories. The thesis demonstrates that a common legitimation pattern across time and different foreign policies within and outside the post-Soviet area exists. Such a pattern revolves primarily around blame allocation strategies via moralisation and authorisation legitimising discourses in conjunction with mythopoesis. |
| Supervisor | Sata Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/bordin_greta.pdf |
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