Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945

by Taylor,Philip

• ISBN13: 9780415116787
• ISBN10: 0415116783
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mass communication and the mass media are comparatively recent phenomena, but are the conditions in which politicians, statesmen and soldiers have been increasingly forced to operate. InGlobal Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945,Philip M. Taylor traces the increased involvement of the media in issues of peace and especially war from the nineteenth century to the present day. He analyzes the nature, role and impact of communications within the international arena and how communications interacts with foreign policy in practice rather than in theory. Using studies which include the Gulf War and Vietnam, Taylor details the contemporary problems of reporting while at the same time providing a comprehensive historical context.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(6)
Acknowledgements	xvii	(2)
List of abbreviations and acronyms	xix
Introduction - The third wave and the fourth dimension: communications and the media in the information age	1	(1)
Order and disorder in the information age	2	(5)
Reinventing wheels	7	(4)
The third wave	11	(9)
The fourth dimension	20	(3)
To have or have not	23	(4)
1 International communications and international politics since 1945	27	(31)
Drawing the battle-lines of ideological war	28	(9)
Extending the conflict to the Third World	37	(10)
The real new world information order	47	(5)
The new world (dis) order	52	(6)
2 Brushfires and firefighters: international affairs and the news media	58	(41)
Foreign policy in the mass media age	59	(10)
Public opinion and foreign policy	69	(4)
Diplomacy and the media	73	(4)
Cultural and public diplomacy	77	(6)
Television and diplomacy	83	(5)
The limits of television in foreign policy	88	(6)
Agenda-setting in real time	94	(5)
3 Illusions of reality: the media and the reporting of warfare	99	(46)
The first flawed rough drafts of history	100	(2)
Framing the military-media dynamic	102	(6)
The myth of the Vietnam Syndrome	108	(7)
Antidotes to the Vietnam Syndrome	115	(4)
Real war and media war	119	(5)
Real-time wars: Desert Storm	124	(6)
Our wars and other people's wars	130	(9)
Conclusions	139	(6)
4 Mind games: information warfare and psychological operations	145	(48)
Third-wave warfare	146	(3)
Some definitions and operational principles	149	(4)
From psywar to PSYOPS	153	(4)
Black propaganda versus white	157	(7)
Psywar in the Cold War era	164	(6)
PSYOPS reborn: Desert Storm	170	(9)
Military operations other than war in the nineties	179	(10)
Conclusions	189	(4)
Conclusion: back to the future	193	(10)
Glossary	203	(2)
Notes	205	(24)
Bibliography	229	(13)
Index	242