By Ekaterina Balabanova
ISBN-10: 0754670694
ISBN-13: 9780754670698
The ebook is easily equipped and targeting a struggle that has had and is continuous to have plentiful box for dialogue in Europe, whilst US concentration has shifted to the Iraq post-war box. the writer has the convenience past having the schooling heritage in political technological know-how from either Western and japanese Europe, to have additionally lived in either areas in the course of the Kosovo clash and hence the facility so as to add the flavor of hands-on wisdom - not just approximately what the media stated concerning the clash, but additionally what the media stored silent approximately. for this reason, this booklet provides intensity to the learn at the topic and in my view is a wanted learn for comprehending the topic of media and politics interplay, in particular within the severe box of conflict and in a society the place impressions created with the ability of authoritative media in the back of them and subsidized via geopolitics has the energy to overshadow truths.
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In addition, the theoretical model used in the study – the media-policy interaction model itself − was developed with reference to the American media and American foreign policy-making. It has been tested in similar contexts − using case studies involving American intervention or non-intervention and the corresponding coverage of key American TV stations and newspapers. This model has never been applied outside of this framework. Even setting aside the wellknown argument that the application of models in general is a distortion of reality and hence their applicability to reasoning is doubtful, the above naturally raises the question as to what extent this particular media-foreign policy interaction model could be applied in a different environment.
Since this is rarely the case, media pressures on reluctant governments are 7 In his discussion of the CNN effect Jakobsen distinguished between national-interest driven enforcement operations and humanitarian-driven enforcement operations and argues that in the case of the former the CNN effect is irrelevant as in this case the government wants to intervene and will use the media instrumentally to mobilise domestic and international support. 14 Media, Wars and Politics most likely to result in minimalist policies aimed at defusing pressure for interventions on the ground.
That is why new wars are associated with large numbers of refugees and displaced persons. 4 million people in 1995. This figure includes only refugees that cross international borders. 4 million people are classified as internally displaced. In addition, the traditional ‘innocent victims’ of war, women and children, are caught up increasingly in the fighting (Taylor, 1997, xxii). In societal terms, material resources and social networks – homes, economic centres, cultural buildings, are deliberately destroyed.