Euroopa Liidu – Venemaa uuringute õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses
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The impact of the choice of strategy of third-party conflict intervention on reducing conflict intensity: case of Russia’s proxy war in the East of Ukraine (2014 - 2021)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In a modern-day world, proxy wars as a type of conflicts, where at least one side represents not a unitary actor, but a proxy-sponsor pair, becomes more and more widespread. Due to the more complicated structure of ... -
Bordering and de-bordering: the Russian speaking community in Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The Purpose of this MA thesis is to explain the nuances between those communities that live along the borders of Estonia & Russia and Estonia & Latvia. The connecting thread between these communities is that they are ... -
Explaining EU sanctions policy: case of Belarus
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In the past decades, the EU has made extensive use of targeted or "smart" sanctions to achieve its policy objectives. Their goal is not to penalize, however, to modify their behavior or policies. The thesis reveals ... -
Holy war! The Russian Orthodox Church’s discourse of legitimization of Russia’s military intervention in Syria
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In late September 2015, Russia officially declared the deployment of military assets to Syria within the frame of a military intervention by invitation in support of the struggling Assad government. Leading up and parallel ... -
Geopolitical policy dilemma for Eastern Partnership countries: democracy and security
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was established in 2009 to formalize the EU's interactions with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova. The EU's goal was to strengthen cooperation, play a role to these ... -
Twiplomacy: An Analysis of Digital Diplomacy on Twitter
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Social media and its influence are becoming more and more significant in international diplomacy. The vast majority of diplomatic actors from state officials to non-state actors have Twitter accounts, indicating how the ... -
Russian media coverage of the EU in times of pandemic: does ownership matter?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The thesis examines how Russian media frames the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether its coverage differs depending on the type of the ownership. To understand how ownership structures influence media portrayal ... -
Consequences of consociationalism in North Macedonia: the changing inter-community relationship in elite discourse
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The fall of Yugoslavia resulted into the independence several countries among them Macedonia (North Macedonia now). However, the government form of new country brought mixed feelings for its citizens. Eventually frustrations ... -
Differences in thematic and geographical interests among the readers of news portal Delfi in Russian and Estonian language
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The purpose of this master’s thesis is to study whether and how the media consumption among Russian-speaking minority in Estonia has an effect on the integration of this group to Estonian society. For this, the character ... -
Assessing the validity of structural reform aggregations in economic growth models of 24 transition economies
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)During the early 1990s a trend of aggregating policy variables emerged out of econometric examinations of growth in transition countries, where more conventional growth models proved inadequate or incomplete. This thesis ... -
Assessing the Europeanisation of fight against corruption in the candidate countries and Eastern neighbours
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Fight against corruption is an essential element of good governance that has become an inalienable part of EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy. Progress in the fight against corruption depends on many mechanisms and ... -
The contestation of hegemonic discourse through new media. The 2020 Belarusian protests
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The study examines how the Belarusian opposition challenges the official discourse of Lukashenka in Telegram and simultaneously analyzes the role of new media in this process. It argues that the discourse of Lukashenka has ... -
Legal and political nature of Eurasian integration
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The Eurasian Economic Union was formed in 2015. After the establishment of the new regional organisations, it triggered scientific engagements both from political and economic circles. Although some legal scholars, both ... -
Very nice! How Kazakhstan uses nation branding for external legitimization
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Comparison of governmental approaches to counter Russian information influence in the Baltic states
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Numerous studies on information influence activities such as mis- and disinformation or inauthentic behaviour on social media have been published in recent years, mainly concentrating on the prevalence, characteristics and ... -
Where are the extremists? The Mexican case for a new understanding in the study of the far right
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This work addresses the question of Why has there not been an increase in support for far-right organizations in Mexico? The author uses process tracing with a wide data range in order to overcome the lack of academic ... -
The surge of souverainism in radical right populism. The Italian case of the League
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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 ...
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