Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media
The beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to global tectonic changes that have also affected the countries of the Western Balkans. Due to the absence of confrontation with the past and unresolved status issues, the interpretations of the war in Ukraine received the expected self-proje...
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| description | The beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to global tectonic changes that have also affected the countries of the Western Balkans. Due to the absence of confrontation with the past and unresolved status issues, the interpretations of the war in Ukraine received the expected self-projection.discourses, the narrative revival of old conflicts, and the strengthening of antagonisms on a national basis. In the political sphere, a self-victimizing discourse was created as another means ofinstrumentalizing the past conflict. The author's intention is to answer the question of how the war in Ukraine, through the dominating discourses of the political elites in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and Kosovo, confirm the already existing ethnicized and onesided views of the past. The authors used critical discourse analysis with a methodological approach based on the discourse historical method by Ruth Wodak, which, by placing the topic in a specific socio-political context, willshow how the instrumentalization of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by leaders becomes very useful for strengthening internal political support regarding sensitive national and status issues. The analysis identified two dominant self-victimizing discourses, the self-victimizing discourse of war victims and the self-victimizing discourse about the archenemy, which developed through the use of different discursive strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0e87993125de40759a223e1f11c509ac2025-02-05T12:21:17ZengCommunication Direction Institute, Novi Sad & University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Sciences, BelgradeCM. Communication and Media2466-541X2466-54522024-01-011955618910.5937/cm19-439692466-541X2455061SWestern Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the mediaSurlić Stefan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4174-9889Milić Kristina1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-1482Univerzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet političkih nauka, beograd, SerbiaUniverzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet političkih nauka, beograd, SerbiaThe beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to global tectonic changes that have also affected the countries of the Western Balkans. Due to the absence of confrontation with the past and unresolved status issues, the interpretations of the war in Ukraine received the expected self-projection.discourses, the narrative revival of old conflicts, and the strengthening of antagonisms on a national basis. In the political sphere, a self-victimizing discourse was created as another means ofinstrumentalizing the past conflict. The author's intention is to answer the question of how the war in Ukraine, through the dominating discourses of the political elites in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and Kosovo, confirm the already existing ethnicized and onesided views of the past. The authors used critical discourse analysis with a methodological approach based on the discourse historical method by Ruth Wodak, which, by placing the topic in a specific socio-political context, willshow how the instrumentalization of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by leaders becomes very useful for strengthening internal political support regarding sensitive national and status issues. The analysis identified two dominant self-victimizing discourses, the self-victimizing discourse of war victims and the self-victimizing discourse about the archenemy, which developed through the use of different discursive strategies.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2466-541X/2024/2466-541X2455061S.pdfwestern balkanswar in ukrainepolitical discoursespolitical leadersmediaself-victimizing discourses |
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| title | Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media |
| title_full | Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media |
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| title_short | Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media |
| title_sort | western balkans in the russian ukrainian war the instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media |
| topic | western balkans war in ukraine political discourses political leaders media self-victimizing discourses |
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