Armed violence in the system of state image formation

La violencia armada en el sistema de formación de la imagen del Estado

• Volodymyr Zablotskyi State Institution «Luhansk Taras Shevcheno National University», Poltava, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1032-8993
• Liudmyla Novoskoltseva Lugansk National Taras Shevchenko University, Poltava, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-7979
• Olena Mezhenska PhD in Political Sciences. Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-5020
• Fedir Khodko Higher Education Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8015-2771
• Stephanie Brynchak Higher Education Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0461-4264

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4178.27

Keywords: armed conflict, total war, state image, positioning in the European space, political semiology

Abstract

The purpose of the article was to analyze the impact of armed violence on shaping the image of democracy, the image of foreign policy and the image of information policy of Ukraine. In the context of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, a real fact is the transformation of Ukraine’s image in the perception of the world during the processes of European integration. Methodologically, dialectical, systematic, structural-functional, institutional, conflictological, political-cultural and axiological approaches were used in the study. It is concluded that the definition of state image presents many variants, since each scholar interprets this concept according to his or her subjective experience. However, the study of the image of a state in the context of international relations makes it possible to assume that the image of a state may arise under the influence of spontaneous (unconscious) factors, armed violence, geopolitical position and other characteristics; as well as a result of the selective influence of the mass media. A positive image of the state is formed through the proper functioning of three components: internal image, foreign policy image and information image.

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