title: BORDERS AND BORDER REGIONS IN A CHANGING GEOPOLITICAL ORDER: TERRITORIAL NARRATIVES OF EUROPE'S MARGINS FROM AN EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVE
abstract: This article explores how two global powers narrate and politicize the territorial margins of Europe -Ukraine and Greenland -by analyzing official presidential rhetoric from the United States and the Russian Federation between 2019 and 2025.Adopting a qualitative, discourse-analytic methodology, the study treats public speeches as performative acts of statecraft that shape geopolitical perception and legitimacy.Focusing on the cases of Ukraine, a contested post-Soviet buffer zone, and Greenland,
journal: Central European Papers