Given the rising importance of the global media and the relative unwillingness of democratic publics to accept casualties in war, decision makers have increasingly relied on the strategic dissemination of rhetoric in order to justify military engagements. They "talk intervention", that is, they justify foreign engagements in terms of an emerging global norm that finds the international community "responsible to protect". Adversaries of interventions, in contrast, emphasize the inherent uncertainties and risks associated with such undertakings, taking advantage of the "body-bag-effect". This...
Given the rising importance of the global media and the relative unwillingness of democratic publics to accept casualties in war, decision makers have...
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: German Foreign Policy, grade: 1,1, University of Constance, 245 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Patrick Haack untersucht in seiner politikwissenschaftlichen Diplomarbeit den Einfluss des Textframings auf politische Einstellungen zu einer fiktiven Ausweitung des Libanon-Einsatzes der Bundeswehr auf die syrisch-libanesische Grenze. Aufgrund einer quantitativen Inhaltanalyse der Bundestagsdebatte zum Libanon-Einsatz identifiziert er zunachst zwei grundlegende Frames...
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: German Foreign Policy, grade: 1,1, University of Constance...