Stigmatisation in international relations: Russia, the West and international society from the Cold War to Crimea
Journal: London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year: 2019

This study analyses the effect of stigmatisation – the process of marking certain actors, behaviours or attributes as deviant in order to reinforce the norms of a social order – on Russian-Western relations from 1991 to 2016 and the broader normative fabric of post-Cold War international society. Building on the stigma literature in Sociology and recent applications of stigma theory in International Relations, stigmatisation is conceptualised as a relational process central to how international