scholarly journals The Russian-Ukrainian War in Ukrainian Political Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Antonina Berezovenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
State Identity ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Military ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The proposed article aims to explore the discursive dynamics of Ukraine caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war. The semantic and pragmatic dominants of relevant political texts were revealed by the method of discursive and content analysis. The article considers the peculiarities of the political discourse of Ukraine after the beginning of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in 2014. Discursive changes in wartime are analyzed through comparisons with the pre-war state, the leading feature of which was the mode of „brotherhood” with Russia. In the course of the analysis it was established that there was no logical immediate change to a „hostile” discourse with the beginning of the Russian aggression. Ukraine was unprepared for an adequate response to Russia's military aggression not only in real but also in discursive terms. Instead, a euphemistic complex was formed in Ukrainian political discourse to present Russia's aggressive actions as something else, something different. In this regard, an attempt is made to analyze the reasons for the belated response of Ukrainian society, especially the leading echelon of Ukrainian politics, to external aggression. Particular attention as a reason for this state of affairs is paid to post-totalitarian influences, which remain relevant to the socio-political dynamics of Ukraine. Among the key ones is the lack of a full-fledged historical and political narrative and the reproduction of mental schemes of the totalitarian past. Along with this, positive changes in the representation of the Russian-Ukrainian military confrontation as such were identified and studied. The discursive mechanisms of creating a narrative adequate to the military situation and discursive means that oppose Russian aggression are analyzed. At the same time, it was found that in the process of forming a specific discursive order, certain canons and standards of the former metropoly remain relevant in the Ukrainian context. First of all, it concerns the inclusion of substandard elements in the official communicative repertoire as a tool of information confrontation in hybrid aggression. The article concludes that a holistic historical and political narrative is the cornerstone for the formation of national and state identity. Without this, the establishment of a full-blooded state subjectivity of Ukraine appears to be an extremely difficult task. In modern Ukrainian realities, we have not a uniquely specific political discourse as part of a detailed historical and political narrative, but a post-totalitarian discursive surrogate, in the mirror of which even the contrasting notions of war and peace lose the necessary clarity. Key words: Russian-Ukrainian war, political discourse, historical and political narrative, post-totalitarian consciousness.

Krieg und Frieden. Land und Militär in direkter Konfrontation 1797–1918

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
Willibald Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Factor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Military ◽  
First World

War and Peace. Land and Military in Direct Confrontation 1797–1918. This chapter focuses on the extremes in relations between the land and the military. The first part deals with the period until 1866, when wars actually took place on Lower Austrian soil and foreign forces were stationed in the land. Here the analysis centres on strategies developed by the population to cope with extraordinary situations. The second section deals with the emergence of the military as a state regulatory power in the sphere of internal and public security in war and peace. The social conflicts following the Vormärz and the political movements in the second half of the 19th century played a role here, as did the First World War, when, although Lower Austria was not a frontline area, the military were the dominant factor in terms of internal security, public control, working life and food security.

scholarly journals SOVIET MILITARY PERIODICAL PRESS DURING THE RED ARMY’S CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE, MARCH 1944 – MAY 1945: STRUCTURE, NORMS, AND PERSONNEL

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
A. G. Arinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Russian State ◽  
War Correspondents ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Civilian Employees ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

The case of the Soviet military periodicals during the Red Army's campaign in Europe (March 1944 – May 1945) is analyzed in the paper based on the materials from the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO RF) and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI). The author analyzes the structure of military periodicals, characterizes the norms established by the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army (GlavPURKKA) regulating the work of military periodicals, and traces the relationship between editorial boards and war correspondents. It is stated that the editorial boards of military periodicals consisted, as a rule, of 27 employees: 19 military personnel and 8 civilian employees. GlavPURKKA controlled the military periodical press. The circulation of military newspapers was determined by the orders of the chief of GlavPURKKA and was repeatedly increased or reduced. The content was controlled by the political administrations of the fronts. GlavPURKKA regulated the main directions of newspapers’ development and revealed shortcomings in the work of editorial boards. Constant supervision by GlavPURKKA and political administrations of the fronts protruded “relations” between editorial boards and war correspondents. The political administrations urged the editorial boards to establish a comprehensive contact with war correspondents and to eliminate the existing shortcomings in working with them. On the whole, the institute of military periodicals was a rather complex “organism” that underwent various changes and improvements throughout the period.

The Constraints of International Courts as a Tool for Resolving the Ukrainian-Russian Conflicts

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 371-406
Author(s):  
Nikolay Marin ◽  
Bilyana Manova
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
International Attention ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Military

Abstract: This article addresses the large number of cases brought by Ukraine before different international courts and tribunals against the Russian Federation following the inclusion of Crimea in Russia and the military conflicts in Eastern Ukraine that ensued. The initiation of numerous legal proceedings is presented as a part of an overall Ukrainian strategy to respond to the loss of Crimea, both in order to obtain specific legal remedies and to draw international attention to its cause. The characteristics of the Ukrainian-Russian proceedings that stem from the political significance of this conflict are addressed. The implications of these cases for international law, and the constraints on the existing system of international justice that have been revealed are also evaluated. It is shown that Ukraine often faces difficulties establishing a jurisdictional basis for its claims. Russia's reluctance to submit the disputes to examination by international courts, manifested in its frequent challenging of their jurisdiction, is explained both by the fact that it is aware of its violations and anticipates adverse judgments, and that it may regard such courts as somewhat hostile towards it. These phenomena are analysed in the larger context of the trend in international politics towards a declining trust in international cooperation.

Ancient Rome and Northern England. A Historical Summary

Antiquity ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 14 (55) ◽  
pp. 292-300
Author(s):  
I. A. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Military ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Civil Government

On the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire, the upland country of northern England always belonged to the military zone. Even today, anyone traversing the wild fells of Pennine or Cheviot, which form its backbone, can soon appreciate why this should be: and understanding becomes complete when imagination has pierced the dark vista of medieval forest and outlaws’ haunts and apprehended a state of affairs when the bounds between man and nature were still more loosely defined. No Anglian settler had yet begun to clear the overgrown dales for farm, hamlet and township. Man was eking out an unenviable existence between forest and fell, selecting where he could the limestone shelves whose natural drainage afforded him good pasturage and meagre tillage. Two closely related factors thus determined the political character of the country. Forest and fell not only gave cover to enemies and outlaws but at the same time prevented the growth of flourishing agricultural communities, such as were capable of developing social instincts receptive of civilization. The result was chronic unrest and potential hostility to civil government.

scholarly journals Demographic Threats to National Security in the Political Discourse of the Russian Federation (1992–2019)

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-272
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Vasilieva ◽  
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Tamara Rostovskaya ◽  
Ebulfez Süleymanlý ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Political Management ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Demographic Policy

Introduction. Population growth in the world is uneven: while in some countries the population has been growing for a long time (China, India), in Russia and in many EU and BRIC countries, the birth rate has been declining in recent years; and if this does not affect the population, then only by increasing life expectancy and migration. Abrupt changes – both growth and decline – in the population are a threat to the national security of the state. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of political management (strategies and tools) aimed at solving demographic problems and increasing the birth rate in the Russian Federation, as well as to identify the stages of the formation of demographic policy in the Russian Federation in 1992–2019. Methods and materials. Based on the qualitative analysis of normative documents, the frame analysis of speeches of political leaders the main factors that influenced the coverage of demographic problems are revealed (the authors used official electronic versions of the following publications: “Sobranie Zakonodatelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation) and “Byulleten normativnykh aktov federalnykh organov ispolnitelnoy vlasti” (Bulletin of Normative Acts of Federal Executive Authorities). Analysis. The proposed research strategy allowed identifying demographic threats to national security articulated by political actors and presented in official documents, statements of officials, as well as to compare the political decisions taken in the Russian Federation with the decisions taken in some European countries. Strategic documents that ensure national security of the Russian Federation by including the demographic agenda in political discourse are considered as a tool of political management. Results. The article assesses the effectiveness of political management in solving demographic problems and increasing the birth rate in the Russian Federation, identifies the stages of the formation of demographic policy in the Russian Federation in 1992–2019, as well as the features of the articulation of demographic problems in the political discourse of Russia, and describes demographic threats. The analysis of the regulatory framework as a tool for political management, demographic threats prevention, as well as the basis of the state strategy for increasing the birth rate in the Russian Federation allowed identifying policy decisions that can be used to develop new measures within the framework of programs to increase the birth rate in the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Uma farsa: Post-Dictatorial Strategies of Forgetting and Remembering in Bernardo Kucinski’s K. Relato de uma busca

2021 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Giulia Riccò
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Truth Commission ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dialogic Discourse ◽  
Testimonial Novel ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Military

The novel K. Relato de uma busca, whose publication coincided with the Brazilian National Truth Commission, has proven remarkably more effective in producing a public and institutional reckoning with the crimes of the military regime than any of the institutional mechanisms implemented by the government or any other testimonial novel previously written about the abuses of the military regime. Its appeal, in part, has to do with Kucinski’s usage of various discourses—fiction, testimonial, epistolary—that successfully challenge the authoritative, and non-dialogic discourse of the military regime. This essay argues that in this novel, politics and fiction are inverted: instead of having a law that fictionalizes the memory of the violence perpetrated by the dictatorship, we have a work of fiction that, by memorializing the struggle of a father in search of his disappeared daughter, brings the crimes committed by the military back into the political discourse.

scholarly journals Inter-textual Analysis of Political Discourse in Party Manifestos

Al-Burz ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-212
Author(s):  
Mehwish Malghanim ◽  
Faria Saeed Khan ◽  
Saima Yousaf ◽  
Zainab Akarm
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
Current State ◽  
Present Context ◽  
State Of Affairs

Political discourse is inarguably deemed an essential tool, influencing people’s perception within a socio-political zone in an imperceptible manner. The present research titled “Inter-textual Analysis of Political Discourse in Party Manifestos” revolved around a critical discourse analysis of manifestos, as presented by five most popular Pakistani political parties, pertaining to the general election, held during the year 2013. With regard to the present context, the mentioned pursuit primarily aimed at linguistically analyzing the political discourse of the aforementioned manifestos at inter-textual level. The theoretical framework used to substantiate the overall analysis centered on Fairclough’s theory of intertextuality (1995) and van Dijk Ideological Square(2004). The findings of the research revealed that all the political parties under study, brought into use the discursive strategy of intertextuality in their party manifestos in order to enhance the positive self image of party to in-group people, by hunting the negative aspects of the out-group, thereby (re)constructing people’s political identities and ideologies and achieving the desired hegemony in a way peculiar to itself. Research of  the kind can be conducted further by analyzing the other dimensions of political discourse and the resultant ideologies, influencing the current state of affairs as prevalent around the globe with special focus on the linguistic aspects of the political discourse.

scholarly journals War and Peace: The Theme of Conflict in Modern Hebrew Literature of the Last Seventy Years

2020 ◽  
pp. 337-352
Author(s):  
Elvira Grözinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
State Of Israel

Modern Israeli Literature, starting with the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 and overshadowed by the Shoah, until today is dominated by the theme of the political conflict with the Arab neighbours. In this article, some key works of different genres in prose and poetry depicting this state of affairs will be introduced.

scholarly journals Polygyny Amongst Muslims in the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Izabela Kończak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Russian Federation

Polygynous families had been living legally in Russia in the areas inhabited by Muslims from the October Revolution to the mid-twentieth century. However, such a family model was not common among the followers of Islam. An act penalizing bigamy or polygamy was introduced into the Penal Code in 1960. During perestroika, and later changes in the political system, imams who came from abroad began to visit areas inhabited by Muslims. They contributed to the rebirth of religion and promoted the idea of po­lygamy. Polygyny is the visible sign of dissimilarity and Muslim identity and was an important point in their teaching. In this context the number of polygynous relationships in Russia has increased significantly. The article is dedicated to the analysis of social and political discourse in Russia that has been taking place for several years.

scholarly journals Perception of Polish Speeches Regarding Military Repairs by Germany in Online Media of the Russian Federation (July 2017 – August 2018)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Drozd
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Russian Federation

The complex of issues of reparation compensation to Poland by the Federal Republic of Germany for the damage caused during the war is analyzed. The analysis of the online media of the Russian Federation on the issue of reparations and features of the political assessment of the issue, and its use in the Polish political discourse is given. The involvement of the Russian media in the issue of Polish reparations claims to the FED is illustrated and the motivation of such materials is determined. Key words: Poland; Germany; reparations; Russian Federation; political process.

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