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Constructions of Gender in Putin’s Administration Military Discourse on Syria and Ukraine

Student: Sizonova Kseniia

Supervisor: Andrej Krickovic

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in International Relations of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2021

Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy during the third presidential term has been arguably characterized by the increased great-power assertiveness. The present work explores how Putin’s official foreign policy discourse on Ukraine and Syria draws on gendered constructions of national identity to legitimize foreign policy. In doing so, the present work uses gender-sensitive critical discourse analysis. Our findings suggest that a particular set of masculinities that are perceived in modern Russian society as hegemonic are projected internationally by the means of the discursive construction of Russian masculine great power identity. In the process of defining the national Self, the US is Othered as exhibiting subordinate hypermasculinity while Ukraine and Syria are feminized.

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