Dmitry Chernobrov is Lecturer in Media and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He has published on issues of identity and perception, ontological security, social exclusion, diasporas and traumatic memories, media representation of politics, and humanitarian crisis communication.

Chernobrov’s book is a valuable contribution to the discussion about national crisis perception. The conclusions about the national identity, public opinion, opinion leaders, and the media’s function in public perception of international events seem to me particularly crucial. The advantage of this book is its attempt to show two perspectives of the same event—Russian and Western.

• List of FiguresList of AcronymsPrefaceIntroductionPART I: THE DRAWING SELF1. Perception and Collective Identity2. Anxiety of the Unknown and (Mis)Recognition3. A Positive SelfPART II: THE PORTRAITS OF OTHERS4. Imagining Others as Different or Similar5. Drawing from MemoryPART III: ENCOUTERING CRISES6. Public Perception of the Arab Uprisings7. Wider Narratives: From the Arab Uprisings to UkraineEpilogue: Perception as a RelationReferencesIndex

Dmitry Chernobrov is Lecturer in Media and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He has published on issues of identity and perception, ontological security, social exclusion, diasporas and traumatic memories, media representation of politics, and humanitarian crisis communication.

Chernobrov’s book is a valuable contribution to the discussion about national crisis perception. The conclusions about the national identity, public opinion, opinion leaders, and the media’s function in public perception of international events seem to me particularly crucial. The advantage of this book is its attempt to show two perspectives of the same event—Russian and Western.

• List of FiguresList of AcronymsPrefaceIntroductionPART I: THE DRAWING SELF1. Perception and Collective Identity2. Anxiety of the Unknown and (Mis)Recognition3. A Positive SelfPART II: THE PORTRAITS OF OTHERS4. Imagining Others as Different or Similar5. Drawing from MemoryPART III: ENCOUTERING CRISES6. Public Perception of the Arab Uprisings7. Wider Narratives: From the Arab Uprisings to UkraineEpilogue: Perception as a RelationReferencesIndex

Dmitry Chernobrov is Lecturer in Media and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He has published on issues of identity and perception, ontological security, social exclusion, diasporas and traumatic memories, media representation of politics, and humanitarian crisis communication.

Chernobrov’s book is a valuable contribution to the discussion about national crisis perception. The conclusions about the national identity, public opinion, opinion leaders, and the media’s function in public perception of international events seem to me particularly crucial. The advantage of this book is its attempt to show two perspectives of the same event—Russian and Western.

• List of FiguresList of AcronymsPrefaceIntroductionPART I: THE DRAWING SELF1. Perception and Collective Identity2. Anxiety of the Unknown and (Mis)Recognition3. A Positive SelfPART II: THE PORTRAITS OF OTHERS4. Imagining Others as Different or Similar5. Drawing from MemoryPART III: ENCOUTERING CRISES6. Public Perception of the Arab Uprisings7. Wider Narratives: From the Arab Uprisings to UkraineEpilogue: Perception as a RelationReferencesIndex