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A telling analysis of the pre-war media debate around the globe which set the stage for the 2003 Iraq war. By concentrating on the pre-war coverage, this group of scholars engages in a more open discussion of the issues than would take place during wartime, and uncovers the implications for each country's position on international concerns.

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Author:   Alexander G. Nikolaev ,  E. Hakanen
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2006 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781403971135

ISBN 10:   1403971137
Pages:   283
Publication Date:   22 February 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WESTERN ALLIANCE: AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND AUSTRALIA A Debate Delayed Is a Debate Denied: U.S. News Media Before the 2003 War With Iraq; W.A.Dorman Strange Bedfellows: The Emergence of the Al Qaeda - Baathist News Frame Prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq; S.Livingston & L.Robinson Their Morals are Ours: The American Media on the Doctrine of 'Preemptive War'; M.Piety & B.J.Foley The Whole World Is Watching, But So What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Antiwar Protest; R.Bishop Postmodern War on Iraq (UK); P.Hammond Orientalism Revisited: The British Media and the Iraq War; J.Brown The War in Iraq: A View from Australia; D.V.Dimitrova Part II: THE WORLD IS TALKING Le Monde on a 'Likely' Iraq War (France); A.Obajtek-Kirkwood The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists? (Germany); S.Schlichting-Artur Shear and Opaque Screens: The Medical Ethnography of Arabic Television, a Phenomenological Quandary of Communal Memory, Suffering and Resistance; I.Roushdy-Hammady Their War or Our War: Whose War Is It Anyway? The Role of the Israeli Media Discourse Built-Up of a War Agenda; L.Mandelzis & C.Naveh Why the Russians Did Not Like It: A Frame Analysis of the Russian Television Coverage of the Coming of the 2003 War in Iraq; A.Nikolaev Clashing World Views: Coverage of the Prewar Iraqi Crisis in the Chinese Press; L.Mangione The Coverage of Debates on the Iraq War: A Case for Zimbabwe; S.Matenda Turn on, Tune in: Language of War in Iraq (Chile, Mexico and Spain); M.Matus-Mendoza

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ALEXANDER NIKOLAEV and ERNEST HAKANEN are both in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University, USA.

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