The CNN Effect or Globalization

The CNN Effect: The Myth of News Media, Foreign Policy and Intervention

Author: Piers Robinson

From the Gulf War to Kosovo, the last decade has seen a new found willingness by Western governments to use force to intervene in "distant" humanitarian crises. Central to this new policy is the so-called "CNN effect," the saturation of western viewers with non-stop, real-time news footage from civil wars, which constitute a powerful plea for action. But is the media genuinely influential in shaping foreign policy, or are governments oblivious to partial news coverage.

The CNN Effect examines the relationship between the state and its media, and considers the role played by the CNN effect in a series of "humanitarian" interventions in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Piers Robinson challenges traditional views of media subservience and argues that sympathetic news coverage at key moments in foreign crises can influence the response of western governments. Included is discussion of the US' recent "bread and bombs" tactics in Afghanistan.

Table of Contents:

	List of tables
	Introduction	1
1	The CNN effect considered	7
2	Developing a theory of media influence	25
3	The CNN effect myth	46
4	The CNN effect in action	72
5	The limits of the CNN effect	93
6	The CNN effect reconsidered	117
	App. A: Policy uncertainty	133
	App. B: Framing	137
	App. C: Testing the policy-media interaction model	141
	App. D: Case selection	143
	Notes	149
	Bibliography and further reading	161
	Index	171

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Globalization

Author: Malcolm Waters

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the center of sociological debates. Widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many businesses, globalization has become a buzz word in recent years. In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization, Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the process, including a chapter on the critiques of the globalization thesis that have emerged since the first edition was published.

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The 1995 edition is here updated and rearranged, and Waters, (sociology, U. of Tasmania) includes a new chapter setting out and refuting objections to globalization. He explains some of the fundamental ideas and impacts of international trade and investment becoming the norm rather than the aberration. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)