Talking About Democracy? A Comparative View of Discourses in the European Union and Armenia, Belarus, and Ukraine
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Kyiv School of Economics
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University of Surrey
- 3. Yerevan State University, Centre for European Studies
- 4. National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, International Scientific-Educational Center
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Yerevan State University
Description
This working paper examines how democracy is discursively constructed and strategically mobilised by symbolic elites in the European Union and three Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It explores whether a shared democratic discourse exists across these contexts and how convergence or divergence reflects underlying geopolitical dynamics and patterns of norm diffusion. Methodologically, the study combines cross-country comparative discourse analysis with norm diffusion conceptual framework, focusing on how officials, politicians, and civil society actors in the EaP reproduce, adapt, or resist EU-promoted democratic norms. Drawing on a corpus of 237 texts (2014–2024), it employs actor-centred coding and intertextual analysis – paying particular attention to discursive positioning and the modality-evaluation gap – to reveal how institutional asymmetries and geopolitical pressures shape the uptake and transformation of democratic language.
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2025-12-19