Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae228" target="_blank" >10.1093/ia/iiae228</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article examines the use of historical analogies by political leaders during foreign policy crises. Specifically, we focus on the German, Polish and Czech leaderships&apos; reactions to Russia&apos;s invasion of Ukraine and investigate the historical analogies which leaders invoked to justify their responses to Russia&apos;s aggression. The existing scholarship recognizes the importance of historical analogies in foreign policy decision-making, but the literature focuses predominantly on several high-profile analogies (i.e. the Munich Agreement or the Vietnam War) and lacks comparative perspective. We employ a dual-method approach that combines qualitative coding with semantic network analysis, and conduct a comparative analysis of the full spectrum of analogies used by Polish, Czech and German policy-makers. We find that politicians did not focus on a single overarching analogy, but employed a wide array of historical references. We also find that even though the countries&apos; policies largely aligned and that their leaders often invoked the same events, the meaning of analogies and the signals they sent differed substantially across cases. Analysing the full spectrum of analogies demonstrates that justifications for supporting Ukraine were shaped more by these states&apos; own historical traumas than by their sympathy for Ukraine, support for international law, or desire to uphold the rules-based international order.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article examines the use of historical analogies by political leaders during foreign policy crises. Specifically, we focus on the German, Polish and Czech leaderships&apos; reactions to Russia&apos;s invasion of Ukraine and investigate the historical analogies which leaders invoked to justify their responses to Russia&apos;s aggression. The existing scholarship recognizes the importance of historical analogies in foreign policy decision-making, but the literature focuses predominantly on several high-profile analogies (i.e. the Munich Agreement or the Vietnam War) and lacks comparative perspective. We employ a dual-method approach that combines qualitative coding with semantic network analysis, and conduct a comparative analysis of the full spectrum of analogies used by Polish, Czech and German policy-makers. We find that politicians did not focus on a single overarching analogy, but employed a wide array of historical references. We also find that even though the countries&apos; policies largely aligned and that their leaders often invoked the same events, the meaning of analogies and the signals they sent differed substantially across cases. Analysing the full spectrum of analogies demonstrates that justifications for supporting Ukraine were shaped more by these states&apos; own historical traumas than by their sympathy for Ukraine, support for international law, or desire to uphold the rules-based international order.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International Affaires

ISSN

0020-5850

e-ISSN

1468-2346

Svazek periodika

100

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

2501-2523

Kód UT WoS článku

001337918500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85208950908