2025/12/26 by Robert S. Hinck
Social Sciences · #European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies #Global Security and Public Health #Media Studies and Communication
paper · doi:10.1177/00219096251406881
crossref issued 2025/12/26 · crossref published 2025/12/26 · crossref published-online 2025/12/26 · openalex created_date 2025/12/26 · openalex publication_date 2025/12/26 · crossref created 2025/12/26 · crossref deposited 2026/07/31 · crossref indexed 2026/07/31 · crossref published-print 2026/08/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This study examines non-Western media discourse reporting on Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Narrative analysis of 690 news articles from Argentina, Nigeria, Japan, and Qatar suggests that the primary storylines orbiting the Russian-Ukraine conflict concern themselves not with typical issues of power politics but the conflict’s economic and humanitarian impacts, revealing various levels of fragility, dependency, and agency. Consequently, a limited global consciousness emerges whereby readers are made aware of their conjoined economic ties yet pushed into differing regional communities, while still coming together out of concern for the humanitarian plight of those suffering from the conflict.