The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making and Humanitarian Intervention

ISBN-13: 9781137544605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Douglas Brommesson; Ann-Marie Ekengren

Opis

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic. The authors analyze media logic under three specific scope conditions: uncertainty, identity, resonance. First, they lay out the general adaptation of media logic in the general debate of the UN General Assembly 1992-2010. They then explore the adaptation of media logic in Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom concerning the cases of humanitarian intervention in Cote d'Ivoire and Libya, both in 2011. The results indicate the need to move beyond the assumption of a general process of mediatization affecting politics in total. Instead, they point in the direction of a nuanced process of mediatization more likely under certain scope conditions and in certain political contexts.

Spis treści

1. Mediatization of foreign policy decision-making

1.1 Our theoretical argument in brief

1.2 Disposition of the book

2. The scope conditions of mediatized foreign policy

2.1 A process that permeates all parts of society, all the time…?

2.2 The need for a delimited understanding of mediatization

<2.3 Scope conditions of mediatized foreign policy roles 18

2.4 CNN literature as empirical support for uncertainty as an important scope condition

2.5 Towards an analytical framework

3. Design and methodological concerns

3.1 Scope conditions on a general level – empirical evidence from the UNGA

3.2 Two empirical cases – Libya and Côte d’Ivoire

3.3 Studying three actors – Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom

3.4 How to proceed with the empirical studies

4. Mediatization in the United Nations General Assembly

4.1 Mediatization of process and form

4.2 Measuring indications of a mediatized foreign policy in UNGA speeches

4.3 Empirical findings from the UN General Assembly

4.3.1 Changes in foreign policy content

4.3.2 The scope conditions of mediatization of the content of politics

4.3.3 Changes in form

4.4 The relationship between form and content

4.5 Three hypothesis regarding the scope conditions of mediatization

4.6 Conclusions

O autorze

Douglas Brommesson is Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests include foreign policy analysis, international relations and religion and politics. Most recently, he co-edited the volume Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (2015). His articles have appeared in journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, International Politics, the Journal of International Relations and Development, and the International Review of Sociology. 

Ann-Marie Ekengren is Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research areas are foreign policy decision-making, international relations and party politics. Ekengren is the author of seven books and has published articles in the International Review of Sociology, International Studies Quarterly and Party Politics among others.

Blurb

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors are more or less likely to adopt media logic. The authors analyze this media logic under three specific scope conditions: uncertainty, identity, resonance. First, they lay out the general adaptation of media logic in the general debate of the UN General Assembly 1992-2010. They then explore the adaptation of media logic under six different foreign policy decision-making processes in Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom concerning the cases of humanitarian intervention in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya, both in 2011. The results of this study indicate the need to move beyond the assumption of a general process of mediatization affecting politics in total, across contextual factors. Instead, they point in the direction of a nuanced process of mediatization more likely under certain scope conditions and in certain political contexts.