Poland’s securitization of Russian threat: a case study from annexation of Crimea to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2026

The study focuses on how the securitization narratives of Polish leadership developed and intensified in response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine, including the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion in 2022. The study employs the Copenhagen School's Securitization theory as its main theoretical framework, combined with Vouri's developed methodology of Five Strands" Framework for analyzing securitization speech acts, to examine the discourse of the Polish Prime Minister an