Role ruské státní identity v mezinárodních vztazích. Případová studie: Válka na Ukrajině

Russian state identity and its role in international relations remains a topical issue not only in the academic sphere. The aim of this thesis is to find out what role Russian state identity plays in the conflict in Ukraine. In order to fulfil the aim, an interpretive qualitative research was chosen, the methods of the thesis are one-case study: the war in Ukraine and Foucauldian discourse analysis. Thanks to the established methods, the role of Russian state identity on the conflict in Ukraine has been demonstrated. Russian state identity allows Putin to pursue his foreign policy without losing support within the population. If a substantial portion of the population shares the same state identity, which is primarily based on imperialism, nationalism, history, culture, and a unified sense of the world order as "Russia's world," then one cannot be surprised by the results of surveys examining increasing support for Putin's regime. However, the imperialist Russian state identity has had the opposite effect among Ukrainian society, where Russian state identity can be seen as one of the reasons for the increase in the percentage of the Ukrainian population identifying as Ukrainian.