Russia and the West: Roots of Conflict and How to Solve it

Student: Inderhaug Martin haaskjold

Educational Programme: Politics. Economics. Philosophy (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2018

This paper is concerned about the troubling political relationship between Russia and the West. More precisely, it is interested in exploring the role of the processes of othering plays both as a causal and a maintaining factor of the conflict. By applying social constructivism as a methodology in this endeavor, the findings suggests that othering indeed do play an important role. As a potential remedy for improving the relations between the two, the paper calls for a deconstruction of the ongoing discourses and image-formations of each other, emphasizing both on a destabilization of the habitus, as well as an intellectuals' mission of “enlightenment”.

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