Description
Within the broader field of populism and the reshaping of international relations, this presentation focuses on the ongoing war in a borderland between the European Union and Russia - the war in Donbass. Unlike other research that draws on nationalism, great power politics or East-West confrontation as analytical frameworks to study Russia's policies towards Ukraine, this contribution aims to identify and map elements of populism in the discursive strategies employed by the Putin regime in order to justify the war. Our analysis of key foreign-policy documents and speeches by leading politicians, as well as of the media, demonstrates that in this case populism extends beyond the dichotomy of people against the establishment. While populism has traditionally been analyzed as oppositional, democratic and emancipatory movement, this presentation considers how populism can also be used a strategy of an undemocratic, reactionary regimes to introduce a new paradigm of military interventions.| Period | 17 Nov 2017 |
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| Event title | Research Seminar Series, Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network : Russian and East European Studies |
| Event type | Seminar |