Euroopa Liidu – Venemaa uuringute õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses
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Interests and international regimes: Explaining cooperation in Arctic disputes
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Since the end of the Cold War international politics in the Arctic have been characterized by unusual level of cooperation among states. More recently, climate change has allowed the states to increase their presence and ... -
Discourses of danger: Russian identity production in the Syrian conflict
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This Master’s thesis is a poststructuralist discourse analysis for a single case study and one event research problem. Drawing on an existing body of literature in the realm of discourse analysis, poststructuralism and ... -
Ideology vs. interests: are the radical right-wing populists the voice of the people? Case of Austria and Hungary
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The main objective of this thesis is to find out whether selected populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs) truly represent the electorate, their demands and voices, or is it their merely political-strategic rhetoric ... -
European Capital of Culture in postsocialist cities: in search of Europe
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)“European Capital of Culture” (ECoC) is an initiative of the EU, established with a purpose to promote a Pan-European culture and stimulate urban development. In this thesis, the ECOC is considered as a platform for dialogue ... -
EU’s regional integration strategies and its implication for civil society participation in Eastern partnership countries: comparing Georgia and Armenia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Institutional framework within the EaP introduced a tailor-made policy approach towards six Eastern Partnership countries. Meanwhile, another regional integration project, the Eurasian Economic Union, was created by Russia ... -
Polarization of public opinion regarding the EU in conditions of polarized national elite
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Theoretically, elite polarization should lead to public polarization but it does not always happen. This Master’s thesis examines what factors lead to mass polarization when parties are polarized. 12 cases with high elite ... -
(Re)constructing Europes in the migrant crisis: Germany, Hungary, and Russia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis uses Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory to analyse the construction of European identity by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President ... -
How exogenous factors redirect voter preferences: the case of Italy and Lega Nord
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The current rise of far right populist parties in Europe has touched the Italian political scene during the 2018 national elections, when Lega Nord (Northern League) reached 17.35 percent of support from all over the ... -
The challenges of change in foreign policy - norms and the EU's policy learning in the European Neighbourhood Policy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The lack of fundamental change within the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) seems puzzling given both the policy’s lack of success and the self-initiated opportunities the European Union (EU) had to change the policy ... -
Beyond ecclesiastical nationalism: agency and selfhood in the Orthodox world – the constellations of contemporary Macedonia and Moldova
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Against the background of an innate imperative for ecclesial unity, the intensifying antagonistic plurality of the Orthodox Church poses an array of research questions. The continuous social relevance of Orthodoxy, as well ... -
Takeover of the memory field: changing commemorative practises regarding Stalinist repressions in Russia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Current paper primarily focuses on the analyses of Russian memory regime on the issue of Stalinist repressions. Over the recent years, Russian government established a monopoly of commemoration of the past events by ... -
Artistic practices on the service of the counter-hegemony: the case of contemporary Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The writing and completion of this thesis would not have been possible without support of my supervisors Dr. Andreas Ventsel and Katarina Damčević. I want to express my gratitude which is beyond any words for the eternal ... -
Russian and Chinese conceptions of deterrence: a comparative study of revisionism and the status-quo
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The study of deterrence provides a unique and insightful alternative for the evaluation of state revisionism and status-quo adherence. This thesis provides an innovate method and proof-of-concept for the categorization of ... -
Divergent understandings regarding the “strategic autonomy of the European Union”: a result of the plurality of strategic cultures among the member states
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)In the recent years, the strategic autonomy of the European Union (EU) has become one of the buzzwords when it comes to the defence cooperation of the EU. However, even though that all EU Member States have agreed with the ... -
Local governments’ motives for adopting participatory budgeting: evidence from Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Participatory budgeting as a successful participatory instrument has been implemented all over the world for almost 30 years. Since this concept is rather new in Estonian case, there is a gap in existing scholarly discussion ... -
10 years of Nordic defence: the correlation between perception of threat and ambition for defence cooperation in the Nordic Council 2009-2018
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Defence and security have during the last decade become an increasingly important part of the Nordic cooperation that traditionally has been defined mainly by the absence of these questions on the agenda. In my thesis I ... -
Public confidence in national and supranational institutions: the impact of materialist and post-materialist values
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)Advanced industrialized societies are undergoing a change that alters individual values, beliefs and behavior. Building on the theories of changing values articulated by Ronald Inglehart, the thesis hypothesizes that the ... -
Adaptation of diplomacy to the digital age case studies: the USA, Israel and Russia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The purpose of this research is to study the transformations in the nature of diplomacy in order to adapt new age. The research investigates the distinct form of diplomacy identified by the changes result of technological ... -
Framing refugee news in the electorate cycle: the case of Italy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The current European refugee crisis affects many EU countries, including Italy, which due to its strategical location in the Mediterranean area, has become one of the main destinations for the migratory flows coming from ...
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