Russia’s connection to far-right movements is an emerging research area. By looking at the case of Georgia, a strategic narrative approach is employed to further understand this connection in a complex environment of anti-Russian sentiments. By developing an analytical framework looking into strategic narrative alignment, a focus is shifted to communication and storytelling. Russian News Agency TASS and two Georgian movements, Alliance of Patriots and Conservative Movement, are analysed through a narrative analysis and evaluated in how, and to what extent their narratives align. The results unveil echoing stories of a Western villain and future solutions of a Georgia tending to its true national interests. The Russian narrative aligns to a larger extent with the radical right party rather than the extreme right party. Aligning narration in antagonistic purposes can thereby implicate Georgia’s foreign policy direction of Euro-Atlantic integration by facilitation of Russian interests through domestic, far-right movements.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:fhs-11586 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Pehrson, Bibbi |
| Publisher | Försvarshögskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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