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EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others

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  • Kateryna Pishchikova

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By conducting Bakhtinian dialogic discourse analysis, this article shows how the EU (re)constructs its sense of the Self vis‐à‐vis two constitutive Others – Russia and Ukraine – since the Russian full‐scale invasion in February 2022. It argues that the EU has been able to renew its Self‐image as a ‘peace project’ and a ‘normative power’, whilst also embracing more fully the idea of a ‘geopolitical’ EU. Its relations with Ukraine continue to be characterised by the ‘politics of ambiguity’, whereby Ukraine is kept in a liminal state despite its new role of a ‘frontier’ that contributes to EU security. The EU may be said to be facing a dilemma between solidarity and inclusion versus securitisation and re‐bordering. In terms of identity construction, this denotes a tension between a Self that depends on securitised binaries and a Self that transcends this dialectic via a dialogic celebration of alterity.

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  • Kateryna Pishchikova, 2025. "EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 63(5), pages 1571-1593, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:63:y:2025:i:5:p:1571-1593
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13760
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