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Communication is central to how we understand international
affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that
communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified
in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to
information, social media, and the transformation of who can
communicate and how. Soft power, public diplomacy 2.0, network
power - scholars and policymakers are concerned with understanding
what is happening. This book is the first to develop a systematic
framework to understand how political actors seek to shape order
through narrative projection in this new environment. To explain
the changing world order - the rise of the BRICS, the dilemmas of
climate change, poverty and terrorism, the intractability of
conflict - the authors explore how actors form and project
narratives and how third parties interpret and interact with these
narratives. The concept of strategic narrative draws together the
most salient of international relations concepts, including the
links between power and ideas; international and domestic; and
state and non-state actors. The book is anchored around four
themes: order, actors, uncertainty, and contestation. Through
these, Strategic Narratives shows both the possibilities and the
limits of communication and power, and makes an important
contribution to theorizing and studying empirically contemporary
international relations. International Studies Association:
International Communication Best Book Award
This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse
by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or
hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a
new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there
appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the
shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views
about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as
oppositional to Western values. This book asks what, if anything is
new about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relate to
political acts of violence and terror, and what the role of the
mass media is in promoting or hindering them. This includes
exploring how the acts themselves and explanations for them on the
web are picked up and represented in mainstream television news
media or Big Media, through the journalistic and editorial uses of
words, phrases, graphics, images, and videos. It analyses how
interpretations of the term 'radicalisation' are shaped by news
representations through investigating audience responses,
understandings and misunderstandings. Transnational in scope, this
book seeks to contribute to an understanding of the connectivity
and relationships that make up the new media ecology, especially
those that appear to transcend the local and the global, accelerate
the dissemination of radicalising discourses, and amplify
media/public fears of political violence. This book will be of
interest to students of security studies, media studies, terrorism
studies, political science and sociology.
This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse
by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or
hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a
new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there
appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the
shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views
about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as
oppositional to Western values. This book asks what, if anything is
new about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relate to
political acts of violence and terror, and what the role of the
mass media is in promoting or hindering them. This includes
exploring how the acts themselves and explanations for them on the
web are picked up and represented in mainstream television news
media or Big Media, through the journalistic and editorial uses of
words, phrases, graphics, images, and videos. It analyses how
interpretations of the term 'radicalisation' are shaped by news
representations through investigating audience responses,
understandings and misunderstandings. Transnational in scope, this
book seeks to contribute to an understanding of the connectivity
and relationships that make up the new media ecology, especially
those that appear to transcend the local and the global, accelerate
the dissemination of radicalising discourses, and amplify
media/public fears of political violence. This book will be of
interest to students of security studies, media studies, terrorism
studies, political science and sociology.
Communication is central to how we understand international
affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that
communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified
in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to
information, social media, and the transformation of who can
communicate and how. Soft power, public diplomacy 2.0, network
power - scholars and policymakers are concerned with understanding
what is happening. This book is the first to develop a systematic
framework to understand how political actors seek to shape order
through narrative projection in this new environment. To explain
the changing world order - the rise of the BRICS, the dilemmas of
climate change, poverty and terrorism, the intractability of
conflict - the authors explore how actors form and project
narratives and how third parties interpret and interact with these
narratives. The concept of strategic narrative draws together the
most salient of international relations concepts, including the
links between power and ideas; international and domestic; and
state and non-state actors. The book is anchored around four
themes: order, actors, uncertainty, and contestation. Through
these, Strategic Narratives shows both the possibilities and the
limits of communication and power, and makes an important
contribution to theorizing and studying empirically contemporary
international relations.
This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus
on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative
approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to
highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the
narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this
bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third
parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe
in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic
communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and
media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The
Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas
addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and
China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and
its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus
on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative
approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to
highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the
narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this
bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third
parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe
in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic
communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and
media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The
Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas
addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and
China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and
its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and
multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media
through the conceptual lens of 'space'. 'Space' offers a profound,
challenging and original framework through which notions of
communication, embodiment, enactment, memory and power are
interrogated not only in terms of how media spaces (traditional,
digital, cultural, aesthetic, embodied, mnemonic) transform the
conduct, outcomes and consequences of war for all involved, but how
'war' actors (political, military, survivors, victims) recreate
space in a manner that is transformative across political, social,
cultural and personal spheres. Foregrounding the work of artists,
activists and practitioners alongside more traditional scholarly
approaches Spaces of War, War of Spaces engages with the
'messiness' of war and media through the convergence of practice
and theory, where showing and embodying is made explicit.
Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and
multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media
through the conceptual lens of 'space'. 'Space' offers a profound,
challenging and original framework through which notions of
communication, embodiment, enactment, memory and power are
interrogated not only in terms of how media spaces (traditional,
digital, cultural, aesthetic, embodied, mnemonic) transform the
conduct, outcomes and consequences of war for all involved, but how
'war' actors (political, military, survivors, victims) recreate
space in a manner that is transformative across political, social,
cultural and personal spheres. Foregrounding the work of artists,
activists and practitioners alongside more traditional scholarly
approaches Spaces of War, War of Spaces engages with the
'messiness' of war and media through the convergence of practice
and theory, where showing and embodying is made explicit.
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