Leading to the 2003 Iraq War

A telling analysis of the pre-war media debate around the globe which set the stage for the 2003 Iraq war. By concentrating on the pre-war coverage, this group of scholars engages in a more open discussion of the issues than would take place during wartime, and uncovers the implications for each country's position on international concerns.

Autorentext
ALEXANDER NIKOLAEV and ERNEST HAKANEN are both in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University, USA.

Inhalt
PART I: THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WESTERN ALLIANCE: AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND AUSTRALIA A Debate Delayed Is a Debate Denied: U.S. News Media Before the 2003 War With Iraq; W.A.Dorman Strange Bedfellows: The Emergence of the Al Qaeda - Baathist News Frame Prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq; S.Livingston & L.Robinson Their Morals are Ours: The American Media on the Doctrine of 'Preemptive War'; M.Piety & B.J.Foley The Whole World Is Watching, But So What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Antiwar Protest; R.Bishop Postmodern War on Iraq (UK); P.Hammond Orientalism Revisited: The British Media and the Iraq War; J.Brown The War in Iraq: A View from Australia; D.V.Dimitrova Part II: THE WORLD IS TALKING Le Monde on a 'Likely' Iraq War (France); A.Obajtek-Kirkwood The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists? (Germany); S.Schlichting-Artur Shear and Opaque Screens: The Medical Ethnography of Arabic Television, a Phenomenological Quandary of Communal Memory, Suffering and Resistance; I.Roushdy-Hammady Their War or Our War: Whose War Is It Anyway? The Role of the Israeli Media Discourse Built-Up of a War Agenda; L.Mandelzis & C.Naveh Why the Russians Did Not Like It: A Frame Analysis of the Russian Television Coverage of the Coming of the 2003 War in Iraq; A.Nikolaev Clashing World Views: Coverage of the Prewar Iraqi Crisis in the Chinese Press; L.Mangione The Coverage of Debates on the Iraq War: A Case for Zimbabwe; S.Matenda Turn on, Tune in: Language of War in Iraq (Chile, Mexico and Spain); M.Matus-Mendoza