THE CATALAN CRISIS’ EUROPEAN DIMENSION: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
Journal: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Filosofiya Sotsiologiya Politologiya
Year: 2025

The article considers the problem of a supranational actor participation in an internal conflict between Catalonia and Spain, with the European Union as such an actor. The objective of the study is to determine the supranational actor’s impact on the conflict. The use of discourse analysis in untangling the European Union’s stance in the conflict represents the article’s novelty. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the discourse theory, the theory of sovereignty and the internat