Essays about: "post-Soviet Ukraine"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words post-Soviet Ukraine.

  1. 1. Changing Narratives : Ukrainian Memory Politics and Ontological Security

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Billy Norman Braun; [2023]
    Keywords : Ontological Security; Self; Identity; Ukraine; Memory Politics; Russo-Ukrainian War; Critical Security Theory;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how ontological security shapes Ukrainian memory politics in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Russian invasion's effect on ontological security. Despite their interdependence, ontological security and memory politics are seldomly studied together. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Russian Playbook : Using History & Path Dependence to Analyse How Russia Operationalises Grand Strategy in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Justine Westbrook; [2023]
    Keywords : Russia; Security; International Relations; Conflict; History; Path Dependence; Georgia; Ukraine; Moldova; War; Historical Institutionalism; USSR; Post-Soviet; Deception; Russian Influence; Weaponization; Weaponisation; Donba; South Ossetia; Crimea; Transnistria; Pridnestrovia; Russian Grand Strategy; Abkhazia; Frozen Conflict; Playbook;

    Abstract : To predict and prevent future armed conflicts like Russia’s war against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2022, there is more value in knowing how these wars occurred rather than why they occurred. The Russian Playbook is built from three distinct “plays” employed by Moscow and organised in the theoretical framework of Historical Institutionalism through Path Dependence modelling. READ MORE

  4. 3. Russia's Near Abroad

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anton Håkansson; [2022]
    Keywords : Spatiality; Security Cultures; Critical Geopolitics; NATO; Russia; Ukraine; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay combines theoretical insight from critical geo-politics and security studies to create a framework by which Putin’s Russia, his political prescriptions and actions in the international space can better be understood. It describes how the sociospatial entanglement of the post-soviet region that is today known as Russia's ‘near abroad’ intersects with questions about history, identity, ethnicity on the one hand, and security and geo-political anxiety on the other. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cooperatives at a crossroads : trajectories of agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Viktor Eriksson; [2021]
    Keywords : agricultural; cooperative; Ukraine; post-soviet; trust; collective action;

    Abstract : This exploratory comparative case study seeks to understand challenges and strategies for farmer collective action in post-Soviet settings. It does so by examining member relations, trust and commitment in two successful dairy cooperatives in western Ukraine: one NGOinitiated cooperative with a bottom-up organization, and one cooperative developed in liaison with a local large-scale agricultural enterprise (LSE). READ MORE

  6. 5. The Other Within Us – A Narrative Analysis of Self- and Other-Identification on Social Media by Actors Involved in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Annika Ruge; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Media; Media Studies; Social Identity; Social Constructivism; Narratives; Self; Other; Eastern Europe; Nationalism; Qualitative Content Analysis; post-Soviet history; conflict studies; Ukraine; Russia; European Studies; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study examines narratives of Self- and Other-identification in social media content of actors, directly and indirectly involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The aim is to shed light on how social media can be instrumentalised as a means of constructing Self and Other in the context of ongoing conflict. READ MORE