Media Pressure On Foreign Policy: The Evolving Theoretical Framework (the Palgrave Macmillan Series In International Political Communication)

Media pressure is often implicated in changes to foreign policy. It is at once hailed as a check on the abuse of power and then reviled for undermining the roles and responsibilities of democratic institutions. But we are still left to wonder what media pressure is . This question is explicitly answered here, and in doing so it shows how the never-ending conversation between the media and executive creates social imperatives to which the executives "must" respond or else threaten their needed moral positions required to lead or act in international affairs. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Introduction......Page 22 A Review of Modern Literature......Page 23 2 Beyond the Contemporary Debate......Page 34 The Seditious Libel Test and the Liberal Divide......Page 39 Across the Liberal Divide......Page 45 Presentation of the Positioning Hypothesis......Page 56 Positioning Theory......Page 57 Inter-Institutional Conversations at the Interpersonal Nexus......Page 65 A Typology of Episode Types......Page 70 The Ubiquity of Security Coalitions in Liberal Democratic Statecraft......Page 77 4 The Iraqi Civil War and the Aftermath, 1991......Page 82 A Historical Overview of Events......Page 87 Reflections on the Events......Page 126 Types and Measures......Page 130 Understanding Trends in Media Coverage, March–June 1991......Page 147 Creating Data Sets......Page 164 Coding "Objectionables"......Page 166 Independent Measures of Media Pressure......Page 169 Net Figures on Pressure......Page 180 Understanding Trends in Media Pressure, March–June......Page 183 Media Influence......Page 189 Overview......Page 198 The Positioning Hypothesis in Broader Context: Political Communication and International Relations......Page 211 From Challenges to a Research Agenda......Page 222 Notes......Page 226 Bibliography......Page 244 F......Page 254 M......Page 255 S......Page 256 Z......Page 257 "Media pressure is often implicated in changes to foreign policy. It is at once hailed as a check on the abuse of power and then reviled for undermining the roles and responsibilities of democratic institutions. But we are still left to wonder what media pressure is. This question is explicitly answered here, and in doing so it shows how the never-ending conversation between the media and executive creates social imperatives to which the executives "must" respond or else threaten their needed moral positions required to lead or act in international affairs."--Jacket This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991. This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the new field of 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology