War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine - 9781032455358

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War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in UkraineAuthor(s): Olga Baysha\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032455358, 978-1032455358\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populisms tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic \""good versus evil\"" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukrainewith his division of the world into \""civilized us\"" versus \""barbarian them\""the book argues that such a one-dimensional representation of complex social reality leaves no space for understanding the conflict and has little, if any, potential to bring about peace.\n\nTo deconstruct the \""civilization versus barbarism\"" discourse propagated by Zelensky, the book incorporates into its analysis alternative articulations of the crisis by oppositional voices. The author looks at the writing o.