Europe in conflict – an analysis of European discourses in light of the Ukrainian crisis
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2015

The main goal of this thesis is to create understanding on how the EU sees the events in Ukraine and creates itself through the articulation of a self and other. This official discourse, articulated through the readings of EU political elite, is seen as hegemonic and discourses radically opposing it as counter-hegemonic discourses. To achieve this a poststructuralist approach to discourse, language and identity is adopted.&#13;\nThe results of the analysis show that by the official discourse, th