Legitimization of International Conflicts In a Hybrid Reality: Public Discourse, Social Practices, Political Decisions
Legitimization of International Conflicts In a Hybrid Reality: Public Discourse, Social Practices, Political Decisions
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WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Global transformations of the political realm, and attempts to reshape the global world order as well as transit of local conflicts to the international ones and hybrid mode of current conflicts — all listed above make actual and pivotal academic research of problems related to design and legitimization of conflicts of different levels and character.
During last decades soft power instrumental capabilities has demonstrated poor performance. Modern military conflicts are increasingly acquiring a quasi-permanent nature, with the growing role of the media component, providing both support from the population and the sympathy of those participants in international relations who are not active parties to the conflict. The hybrid nature of wars turns them into ordinary everyday life activities, deprives them of the status of an exceptional, epoch-making event, and demonstrates almost unlimited space for representative manipulation of the real situation developing "on the ground".
To understand the prospects and dynamics of conflict interactions, especially in crisis conditions of global uncertainty, it seems productive to study issues related to the mechanism of explanation and justification of conflicts and violence based on social, cultural and historical grounds. We are waiting papers focusing on the content of political discourse and on the constructing an image of the enemy and the image of the victim in mass media and public opinion.
During last decades soft power instrumental capabilities has demonstrated poor performance. Modern military conflicts are increasingly acquiring a quasi-permanent nature, with the growing role of the media component, providing both support from the population and the sympathy of those participants in international relations who are not active parties to the conflict. The hybrid nature of wars turns them into ordinary everyday life activities, deprives them of the status of an exceptional, epoch-making event, and demonstrates almost unlimited space for representative manipulation of the real situation developing "on the ground".
To understand the prospects and dynamics of conflict interactions, especially in crisis conditions of global uncertainty, it seems productive to study issues related to the mechanism of explanation and justification of conflicts and violence based on social, cultural and historical grounds. We are waiting papers focusing on the content of political discourse and on the constructing an image of the enemy and the image of the victim in mass media and public opinion.
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