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- Petersson, Bo
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Perspective on the Eastern Enlargement : Triumph of the EU or Seed of Its Destruction?
- 2019. - 1
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Ingår i: Trust in the European Union in Challenging Times. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319738567 - 9783319738574 ; , s. 41-64
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Efter en kortfattad bakgrundsdiskussion om östutvidgningens dilemman behandlas frågan om en gemensam identitet för EU och vari denna kan tänkas bestå. Argumentet är att förekomsten av en gemensam identitet byggd på gemensamma värden är nödvändig för tilliten inom unionen, liksom för dess inflytande och anseende i världen. Därefter diskuteras de utmaningar som nu riktas mot EU:s gemensamma värdegrund: från de illiberala demokratierna Ungern och Polen, från auktoritära stater utanför EU som Ryssland och Turkiet samt från populistiska strömningar över hela EU-området. Kapitlet avslutas med en summering och några handlingsrekommendationer för hur en gemensam värdegrund, identitet och tillit kan värnas inom unionen.
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- Petersson, Bo
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Mars 2018 – och sedan? : Om successionsfrågan i Putins Ryssland
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordisk Østforum. - : Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 0801-7220 .- 1891-1773. ; 32, s. 123-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As president of Russia and a prominent political leader, Vladimir Putin has consistently endeavored to legitimize his rule by appealing to central political myths and taken-for-granted truths in Russian society. In rhetoric and official communication, he emerges as the guarantor of domestic order and stability, the protector of traditional values, and a staunch advocate of Russia’s status and position as a great power in a world often depicted as hostile. What is being communicated here, and apparently finds resonance among broad segments of public opinion, is that on all these parameters Putin is uniquely qualified to lead Russia. Four times in the course of 18 years, Putin has been elected president in the first round of elections, and throughout this period he has received high rankings in regular monthly opinion polls. However, his legitimation strategies have been so firmly linked to the persona of Putin that we may speak of an emerging dilemma with his fourth presidency. Who could fill his shoes as his successor? The article analyzes this dilemma, taking its point of departure in Weber’s seminal theorizing on types of legitimate authority and the routinization of charisma. It discusses the evident dearth of credible successor candidates, and concludes by discussing possible actions for dealing with or postponing the issue of succession.
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- Petersson, Bo
(författare)
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The return of ideology : the search for regime identities in postcommunist Russia and China
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nationalities Papers. - : Taylor and Francis. - 0090-5992 .- 1465-3923. ; 46:4, s. 727-729
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In her new book The Return of Ideology Cheng Chen argues that as a nation makes the transition from Communism to democracy or something else, its regime must construct a new political ideology that can guide policy and provide a sense of mission and national togetherness. This is needed for engendering legitimacy among the populace as well as the support of domestic political and economic elites, and is a precondition for the regime’s long-term viability. In the book, Cheng Chen compares the Russian Federation after 1991 and post-Deng China during roughly the same period, and investigates the degree of success of the ideology-building projects in the two great powers.
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- Orange, Mia, et al.
(författare)
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‘There Can Be No Other Sun in the Sky’ : Political Myth, Spirituality and Legitimacy in Contemporary Kazakhstan
- 2017
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Ingår i: Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319390017 ; , s. 25-47
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the elimination of Soviet state communism in the early 1990s, the ideational foundation of politics in the five Central Asian former Soviet republics had to undergo fundamental rebuilding. Instead of the defunct basis of Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism, the rulers of the suddenly independent Central Asian states urgently had to identify other ways and means of legitimizing their hold on power. The following is an analysis of how this quest has fared in the case of Kazakhstan, a resource-rich state with regional great-power aspirations.
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- Orange, Mia, et al.
(författare)
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‘There Can Be No Other Sun in the Sky’: Political Myth, Spirituality and Legitimacy in Contemporary Kazakhstan
- 2017
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Ingår i: Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past : History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World Islam and Nationalism. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319390000 - 9783319390017 ; , s. 25-47
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the elimination of Soviet state communism in the early 1990s, the ideational foundation of politics in the five Central Asian former Soviet republics had to undergo fundamental rebuilding. Instead of the defunct basis of Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism, the rulers of the suddenly independent Central Asian states urgently had to identify other ways and means of legitimizing their hold on power. The following is an analysis of how this quest has fared in the case of Kazakhstan, a resource-rich state with regional great-power aspirations.
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| 26. |
- Petersson, Bo, et al.
(författare)
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Fifteen minutes of fame long gone : Circassian activism before and after the Sochi Olympics
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sport in Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1743-0437 .- 1743-0445. ; 20:4, s. 505-517
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we discuss the effects of the Sochi Olympics on the indigenous Circassian population in North Caucasus. The Circassian situation was paradoxical in the sense that whereas this indigenous group fiercely opposed the organization of the Winter Games in Sochi, the Games themselves denoted a rare opportunity for them to make their voices heard internationally. During the run-up to the Olympics they all of a sudden had a global audience for their claims for recognition of their cause. This was quite simply their ‘fifteen minutes of fame’, a rare and short-lived period of celebrity and worldwide attention. The paper will look into whether the anti-Sochi activism helped to unite Circassians in the diaspora and abroad around common claims, and to what extent the Circassians managed to use media attention to make their cause more widely known by international society.
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- Petersson, Bo, et al.
(författare)
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Migration in the Media : Metaphors in Swedish and German News Coverage
- 2017
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Ingår i: NORDEUROPAforum. - : Humboldt-universität. - 1863-639X. ; 19:2017, s. 38-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Migration-related events have received overwhelming attention in mainstream media coverage within Europe in recent years. This study investigates the metaphorical framing of migration issues by comparing dominant discursive patterns from two national and two regional daily newspapers in Sweden and Germany. Applying a corpus-based critical metaphor analysis, the spotlight falls on metaphors prevalent in media articles published during the EU Valletta Summit on migration held in November 2015. The article is inspired by Lakoff and Johnson’s classic work, Metaphors We Live By, according to which metaphors are components of everyday language with a pervasive influence on thoughts and actions. Adhering to this logic, metaphors become most powerful when taken for granted (»naturalized«) and therefore evade readers’ attention. Apart from tracing naturalized metaphorical framings in mainstream Swedish and German media coverage, this study discusses how the discursive connotations conveyed by dominant metaphors are likely to influence readers’ interpretation of migration-related issues and policies.
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| 29. |
- Petersson, Bo
(författare)
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Perspektiv på östutvidgningen : EU:s triumf eller fröet till dess undergång?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Tilliten i EU vid ett vägskäl. - : Santérus Academic Press Sweden. - 9789173591126 ; , s. 55-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Efter en kortfattad bakgrundsdiskussion om östutvidgningens dilemman behandlas frågan om en gemensam identitet för EU och vari denna kan tänkas bestå. Argumentet är att förekomsten av en gemensam identitet byggd på gemensamma värden är nödvändig för tilliten inom unionen, liksom för dess inflytande och anseende i världen. Därefter diskuteras de utmaningar som nu riktas mot EU:s gemensamma värdegrund: från de illiberala demokratierna Ungern och Polen, från auktoritära stater utanför EU som Ryssland och Turkiet samt från populistiska strömningar över hela EU-området. Kapitlet avslutas med en summering och några handlingsrekommendationer för hur en gemensam värdegrund, identitet och tillit kan värnas inom unionen.
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- Petersson, Bo
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Putin and the Russian Mythscape : Dilemmas of Charismatic Legitimacy
- 2017
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Ingår i: Demokratizatsiya. - : IERES. - 1074-6846 .- 1940-4603. ; 25:3, s. 235-254
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- For decades now, President Vladimir Putin has consistently enjoyed markedly high approval rates and seemingly benefitted from charismatic legitimacy, whereas systemic legal-rational legitimacy has remained on a low level. This article discusses how, through the successful communication of political myth, legitimacy has become ever more personalized in Putin’s Russia, and considers some of the dilemmas inherent in non-democratic settings where legitimacy builds on grounds that are not legal-rational in the Weberian sense.
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