Understanding Russia? Helping Ukraine? Poles and Germans on the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict

• Authors: Fomina Joanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in Germany and Poland in the context of the EU policy responses to it, utilising the concept of “strategic culture”. Seeing Russia as a military threat and attributing the main blame for the conflict to it makes people in both countries more likely to support Ukraine. However, it does not explain all the differences between the supporters and opponents of aiding Ukraine.

Keywords

EN

Strategic Culture; Russo-Ukrainian Conflict; German Public Opinion; Polish Public Opinion; Russlandversteher; European Defence and Security Policy

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 103-117

Contributors

author

Fomina Joanna

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences