The CNN Effect in Action

1. Front Matter

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2. The CNN Effect in Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The CNN Effect

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 3-19

   3. Demonstrating the CNN Effect

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 21-46

   4. The CNN Effect and War

      • Babak Bahador

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3. The CNN Effect in Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The Kosovo Crisis

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 67-74

   3. The Media during the Kosovo Crisis

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 75-96

   4. The Government during the Kosovo Crisis—The Macro Review

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 97-127

   5. The Government during the Kosovo Crisis—The Micro Review

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 129-161

   6. Conclusion

      • Babak Bahador

      Pages 163-173

4. Back Matter

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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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"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

BABAK BAHADOR is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communications at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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