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Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication (PIPC)
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This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area.
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Front Matter
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The CNN Effect in Theory
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"Intellectually bracing - often arresting - Bahador makes the powerful case that the CNN effect is much more significant than we think: it helped precipitate a war. A wonderfully concise introduction to the role global media now plays in shaping public perceptions and reshaping political environments, whether the public or the politicians are always aware of it or not." - Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science"Emotion, death, honor, revenge, revulsion, anger, disgust: these are all the messy emotions of war and, at times, foreign policymaking. Babak Bahador does a brilliant job describing how and when ghosts of the dead call leaders into action, and in the process give pause to political counselors...In reconstructing this history and putting it in a sound theoretical context, Bahador has made an important contribution to the CNN effect literature." - Steve L. Livingston,Professor of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University
About the author
BABAK BAHADOR is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communications at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The CNN Effect in Action
Book Subtitle: How the News Media Pushed the West toward War in Kosovo
Authors: Babak Bahador
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604223
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7519-5Published: 08 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53580-4Published: 13 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60422-3Published: 16 April 2007
Series ISSN: 2945-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6126
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 236
Topics: International Relations, Political Communication, Military and Defence Studies, Political Science, Political History