Imagining the Global: Argentinian, Japanese, Nigerian, and Qatari News Narratives of Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine

This study examines non-Western media discourse reporting on Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Narrative analysis of 690 news articles from Argentina, Nigeria, Japan, and Qatar suggests that the primary storylines orbiting the Russian-Ukraine conflict concern themselves not with typical issues of power politics but the conflict’s economic and humanitarian impacts, revealing various levels of fragility, dependency, and agency. Consequently, a limited global consciousness emerges whereby readers are made aware of their conjoined economic ties yet pushed into differing regional communities, while still coming together out of concern for the humanitarian plight of those suffering from the conflict.