The Social Psychological Barriers of Social Norm Contestation: The EU, Russia and Crimea
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2018

This paper focuses on the social psychological barriers underpinning the EU and Russia’s social norm contestation in the context of Ukraine. Through a frame analysis, I analyse how the two actors perceive the Crimean annexation, their own foreign policy behaviour in this context, the foreign policy behaviour of the other, and the general state of the international normative system. My findings indicate that the social psychological barrier which underpins the social norm contestation between the