Original title: Kdo se bojí číhajícího medvěda: Resekuritizace Ruska v postkrymském diskurzu národní bezpečnosti USA
Translated title: Who's Afraid of the Lurking Bear: The Resecuritization of Russia in the Post-Crimean United States National Security Discourse
Authors: Prushankin, Keith ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: This thesis presents a discourse analysis of American perceptions of Russia in their historical and contemporary context. Through the linguistic construction of security offered by the Copenhagen School of Securitization, we can trace the socio-political development of Russia as the threatening other in the American discourse. This thesis has demonstrated the consistency of linguistic devices in the American Russia discourse from the 18th century to the Crimean Crisis, and has identified specific linguistic packages which securitizing actors unpack according to their preferences and goals in a given situation. This thesis also demonstrates that the resecuritization of a previously desecuritized object may occur through the use of preexisting discursive devices that play on existing elements of the national consciousness. Keywords Resecuritization, Securitization, United States, Russia, Socio-Political Discourse, Crimean Crisis, Copenhagen School, Obama Administration, Vladimir Putin Range of thesis: 121 pages, 34,048 words, 240,229 keystrokes.
Keywords: Copenhagen School; Crimean Crisis; Obama Administration; Resecuritization; Russia; Securitization; Socio-Political Discourse; United States; Vladimir Putin; Kodaňská škola; krymská krize; Obamova administrativa; Opětovná sekuritizace; sekuritizace; Spojené státy americké; společensko-politický diskurz; Vladimír Putin

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/86035

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