The CNN Effect in Action: How the News Media Pushed the West toward War in Kosovo [Paperback]

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.The CNN Effect Demonstrating the CNN Effect The CNN Effect and War The Kosovo Crisis The Media during the Kosovo Crisis The Government during the Kosovo Crisis - the Macro Review The Government During the Kosovo Crisis - the Micro Review Conclusion

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.