Contextualising EU and Russian Foreign Policy Rhetoric : Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
Journal: Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja
Year: 2017

Ukraine crisis clashed in February 2014 when Russia annexed the peninsula of Crimea, violating therefore international laws. Since then the crisis has turned to fully fledged conflict situation and has ever since aggravated the EU-Russian relationship. This thesis analyses, how the foreign policy rhetoric between EU and Russia has evolved under the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and how are the prevailing discourses of the Self and other sustained.&#13;\n&#13;\nSocial constructivism, and Chaïm Perelma