Crimean Crisis: Analysis of Russia´s Legitimacy Discourse
Journal: UBibliorum repositorio digital da ubi (University of Beira Interior)
Year: 2020

This dissertation critically interprets the international dimension of the Ukrainian crisis in 2013, crisis that intensified in the 2014 and resulted in an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia in eastern part of Ukraine and occupation of Crimea. It argues this crisis to be simultaneously the result and the intensification of the collision of antagonist and foreign policies towards the contested borders of Ukraine between NATO and Russia. Notwithstanding Ukrainian domestic dimension related