A PERSPECTIVE ON JUSTIFYING THE UKRAINE – RUSSIA WAR. ELEMENTS OF PROPAGANDA

Gabriela-Cătălina DANCIU

Gabriela-Cătălina DANCIU University of Bucharest

Keywords: propaganda, war, Ukraine, Russia

Abstract

This article represents a deep dive research into communication aspects that induce the justification and maintenance of the war in Ukraine (2022) using propaganda elements. We are witnessing an ongoing conflict, and we don’t know how it will end, what the international implications will be, how the behaviors of the great powers will change, or what the small countries will do. I focused my research of this article on two relevant events. The first event is external and has a diplomatic nature (the Munich International Security Conference), and the second one is internal and concerns the legal nature of the phenomenon (the Ukrainian regulations on the Law of Minorities). I examined these two events through communication channels and message transmission perspectives. I put together arguments on how the belligerent states (Russia and Ukraine) are both focused on a permanent win.

Author Biography

Gabriela-Cătălina DANCIU, University of Bucharest

Gabriela-Cătălina Danciu, Ph.D, is a university assistant at the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication. Graduated the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Political Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Master`s Degree in Political Science (SNSPA) and has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Doctoral School of Sociology at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of several articles on the Gusti school and has recently published the book: Strategii de supraviețuire a Școlii Gustiene (1939-1948) (2022). Her area of scientific interest includes: online communication, crisis communication, political marketing.