Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945

Philip M. Taylor

Psychology Press, 1997 - Social Science - 248 pages

An analysis of the nature, role and impact of communications within the international arena since 1945. Philip Taylor provides an accessible guide to this growing field for students of media/ communications studies, and international history.Mass communication and the mass media are comparatively recent phenomena, barely a century old, and we have scarcely begun to appreciate their relationship to the international system. However, these are the conditions in which politicians, statesmen and soldiers have been increasingly forced to operate.In Global Communications, Philip Taylor analyses the nature, role and impact of communications within the international arena since 1945 and of how communications interacts with foreign policy in practice rather than theoretically.Using case studies, reference to theory and practical examples, Global Communications provides an accessible guide to this growing field for students of communications studies, media studies, international relations and international history.

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Contents

• INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SINCE 1945: 27
• DRAWING THE BATTLELINES OF IDEOLOGICAL WAR: 28
• EXTENDING THE CONFLICT TO THE THIRD WORLD: 37
• THE REAL NEW WORLD INFORMATION ORDER: 47
• THE NEW WORLD DISORDER: 52
• BRUSHFIRES AND FIREFIGHTERS International affairs and the news media: 58
• FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MASS MEDIA AGE: 59
• PUBLIC OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY: 69
• DIPLOMACY AND THE MEDIA: 73
• CULTURAL AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: 77
• TELEVISION AND DIPLOMACY: 83
• THE LIMITS OF TELEVISION IN FOREIGN POLICY: 88
• AGENDASETTING IN REALTIME: 94
• ILLUSIONS OF REALITY The media and the reporting of warfare: 99
• THE FIRST FLAWED ROUGH DRAFTS OF HISTORY: 100
• FRAMING THE MILITARYMEDIA DYNAMIC: 102
• THE MYTH OF THE VIETNAM SYNDROME: 108
• ANTIDOTES TO THE VIETNAM SYNDROME: 115
• REAL WAR AND MEDIA WAR: 119
• DESERT STORM: 124
• OUR WARS AND OTHER PEOPLES WARS: 130
• CONCLUSIONS: 139
• MIND GAMES Information warfare and psychological operations: 145
• THIRDWAVE WARFARE: 146
• SOME DEFINITIONS AND OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES: 149
• FROM PSYWAR TO PSYOPS: 153
• BLACK PROPAGANDA VERSUS WHITE: 157
• PSYWAR IN THE COLD WAR ERA: 164
• DESERT STORM: 170
• MILITARY OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR IN THE NINETIES: 179
• CONCLUSIONS: 189
• Back to the future: 193
• GLOSSARY: 203
• NOTES: 205
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 229
• INDEX: 242

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945; New international history in global communications; New international history series; Online access: EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Author: Philip M. Taylor
• Contributors: Ebooks Corporation, ProQuest (Firm)
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0415116783, 9780415116787
• Length: 248 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies