title: Communicating conflict: Russian mediated diplomacy in relation to the annexation of Crimea
abstract: In this thesis I develop a theoretical argument suggesting that devoting attention to mediated public diplomacy and the strategic narratives they disseminate in studies of non-kinetic elements of contemporary armed conflict, will account for aspects of the working mechanisms of such conflict. Probing this argument in the case of the Russian 2014 annexation of Crimea, I find that this is the case. As this thesis is structured as a hypothesis generating case study, I formulate my findings in four 
journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)