Abstract
The Ukraine crisis amplified a number of existing threat narratives and put them back on the agenda, despite the absence of Russia’s own ‘Maidan’, i.e. Russia’s own mass scale movement that led to a regime change. Thus, this book focuses on the time period between 2011 and 2015, covering the discursive struggles around electoral protests, resurgent anti-Americanism with its adoption ban and foreign agents legislation, Pussy Riot trial, debates on sexuality, the fascism discourse in relation to the Ukraine crisis and anti-migration narratives. This book is the first study of this scale to investigate the conditions for the success and failure of securitization narratives using social network data and problematizing the notion of audience and embeddedness of the securitization discourse.
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Gaufman, E. (2017). Introduction. In: Security Threats and Public Perception. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43201-4_1
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