European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)

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Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Paulo
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Vieira, Alena
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/62893
Resumo: The armed conflict that has erupted in Ukraine in 2014 has been affecting the way the states involved interact and how they seek to implement certain narratives in a new regional political context. While Russia has taken a more assertive stance in its neighbourhood through a narrative that seeks to contradict Western values promoted by the European Union (EU), the latter has shown some difficulty in presenting a coherent narrative in the face of developments over the past five years. In this sense, this article proposes to analyse the EU-Russia interaction, using as a case study the incident involving the crash of the Malaysia Airlines civil aircraft MH17. The analytical perspective combines elements of Role Theory - which here focuses on the interaction of states on the basis of certain expectations regarding their internal (national) and external (regional/international) roles - and Strategic Narratives. The differences between issue narratives (including regarding the Bellingcat Investigation Team narrative), system narratives and identity narratives are explored. The argument presented here is that the externalization of the EU issue narrative has emerged in two distinct ways - one more moderate in its official stance as an institution; another more assertive from the point of view of the work done by the East Stratcom Task Force (EATF). This ends up creating some dissonance in the way the European Union designs its narrative, and misalignment with the EU's narrative identity as a role state.
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spelling European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)MH-17role theorystrategic narrativesEuropean UnionRussiaUkraineCiências Sociais::Ciências PolíticasThe armed conflict that has erupted in Ukraine in 2014 has been affecting the way the states involved interact and how they seek to implement certain narratives in a new regional political context. While Russia has taken a more assertive stance in its neighbourhood through a narrative that seeks to contradict Western values promoted by the European Union (EU), the latter has shown some difficulty in presenting a coherent narrative in the face of developments over the past five years. In this sense, this article proposes to analyse the EU-Russia interaction, using as a case study the incident involving the crash of the Malaysia Airlines civil aircraft MH17. The analytical perspective combines elements of Role Theory - which here focuses on the interaction of states on the basis of certain expectations regarding their internal (national) and external (regional/international) roles - and Strategic Narratives. The differences between issue narratives (including regarding the Bellingcat Investigation Team narrative), system narratives and identity narratives are explored. The argument presented here is that the externalization of the EU issue narrative has emerged in two distinct ways - one more moderate in its official stance as an institution; another more assertive from the point of view of the work done by the East Stratcom Task Force (EATF). This ends up creating some dissonance in the way the European Union designs its narrative, and misalignment with the EU's narrative identity as a role state.FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia(undefined)Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. OBSERVARE, Observatório de Relações Exteriores, Unidade de Investigação em Relações InternacionaisUniversidade do MinhoRamos, PauloVieira, Alena2019-112019-11-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/62893engRamos, Paulo; Vieira, Alena (2019). "European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)". JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations, Vol. 10, N.º 2, November 2019-April 2020. Consulted [online] on the date of the last visit, https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.10.2.41647-725110.26619/1647-7251.10.2.4http://repositorio.ual.pt/bitstream/11144/4392info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:51:33Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/62893Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:50:28.431605Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
title European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
spellingShingle European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
Ramos, Paulo
MH-17
role theory
strategic narratives
European Union
Russia
Ukraine
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
title_short European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
title_full European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
title_fullStr European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
title_full_unstemmed European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
title_sort European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)
author Ramos, Paulo
author_facet Ramos, Paulo
Vieira, Alena
author_role author
author2 Vieira, Alena
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ramos, Paulo
Vieira, Alena
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv MH-17
role theory
strategic narratives
European Union
Russia
Ukraine
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
topic MH-17
role theory
strategic narratives
European Union
Russia
Ukraine
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
description The armed conflict that has erupted in Ukraine in 2014 has been affecting the way the states involved interact and how they seek to implement certain narratives in a new regional political context. While Russia has taken a more assertive stance in its neighbourhood through a narrative that seeks to contradict Western values promoted by the European Union (EU), the latter has shown some difficulty in presenting a coherent narrative in the face of developments over the past five years. In this sense, this article proposes to analyse the EU-Russia interaction, using as a case study the incident involving the crash of the Malaysia Airlines civil aircraft MH17. The analytical perspective combines elements of Role Theory - which here focuses on the interaction of states on the basis of certain expectations regarding their internal (national) and external (regional/international) roles - and Strategic Narratives. The differences between issue narratives (including regarding the Bellingcat Investigation Team narrative), system narratives and identity narratives are explored. The argument presented here is that the externalization of the EU issue narrative has emerged in two distinct ways - one more moderate in its official stance as an institution; another more assertive from the point of view of the work done by the East Stratcom Task Force (EATF). This ends up creating some dissonance in the way the European Union designs its narrative, and misalignment with the EU's narrative identity as a role state.
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