Putinregimen och legitimitet: En undersökning av hur Putinregimen legitimerat invasioner
(2022) STVK02 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- On the 24th of February 2022 Russia decided to invade its neighbour Ukraine. On this day Putin delivered a speech in which he described his thoughts and why he deemed it necessary to invade Ukraine. This speech he sought to legitimise the action taken by his regime. This was not the first time since the start of this millennium that Russia invaded a neighbour which in turn raised the question if there are similarities between the ways of legitimising their invasions of their neighbours. The chosen invasions were Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and Ukraine 2022 since they shared common characteristics.
Using a relational constructivist framework focused on legitimisation together with a qualitative content analysis, this thesis examined three... (More) - On the 24th of February 2022 Russia decided to invade its neighbour Ukraine. On this day Putin delivered a speech in which he described his thoughts and why he deemed it necessary to invade Ukraine. This speech he sought to legitimise the action taken by his regime. This was not the first time since the start of this millennium that Russia invaded a neighbour which in turn raised the question if there are similarities between the ways of legitimising their invasions of their neighbours. The chosen invasions were Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and Ukraine 2022 since they shared common characteristics.
Using a relational constructivist framework focused on legitimisation together with a qualitative content analysis, this thesis examined three speeches relevant to these invasions in order to describe how the Putin regime legitimised the chosen invasions.
The analysis found that there were similarities such as peacekeeping, genocide, Nazism and external threats amongst the legitimisation processes. The similarities suggested that there may be some degree of systematics in their applications. Finally, the analysis also provided insight on the interplay between legitimacy and factors such as social context, commonplaces and history. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9097268
- author
- Johansson, Nick LU
- supervisor
-
- John Åberg LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Legitimitet, Putinregimen, relationell konstruktivism, Ryssland, Ukraina, Georgien
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9097268
- date added to LUP
- 2022-10-12 15:09:45
- date last changed
- 2022-10-12 15:09:45
@misc{9097268,
abstract = {{On the 24th of February 2022 Russia decided to invade its neighbour Ukraine. On this day Putin delivered a speech in which he described his thoughts and why he deemed it necessary to invade Ukraine. This speech he sought to legitimise the action taken by his regime. This was not the first time since the start of this millennium that Russia invaded a neighbour which in turn raised the question if there are similarities between the ways of legitimising their invasions of their neighbours. The chosen invasions were Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and Ukraine 2022 since they shared common characteristics.
Using a relational constructivist framework focused on legitimisation together with a qualitative content analysis, this thesis examined three speeches relevant to these invasions in order to describe how the Putin regime legitimised the chosen invasions.
The analysis found that there were similarities such as peacekeeping, genocide, Nazism and external threats amongst the legitimisation processes. The similarities suggested that there may be some degree of systematics in their applications. Finally, the analysis also provided insight on the interplay between legitimacy and factors such as social context, commonplaces and history.}},
author = {{Johansson, Nick}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Putinregimen och legitimitet: En undersökning av hur Putinregimen legitimerat invasioner}},
year = {{2022}},
}