The media and international relations

Abstract

This chapter explores the complex and often debated relationship between the media and international relations. It examines arguments that the media has a deep and significant impact on how governments shape their foreign policy and how individuals and groups of people are also influenced to respond in certain ways to issues presented in the media. There is no doubt that the media plays some role in international relations but the exact nature of this role is often debated. Is the media's role to negotiate the relationship between the major actors in international affairs? Or does the media play a more significant role as an international actor in its own right with the ability to influence and shape foreign policy and responses to international events and issues?

Document Type

Book Chapter

Date of Publication

2015

Location of the Work

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Publisher

Routledge

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

20882

Comments

Aly, A. (2015). The media and international relations. In Kavalski, E. (Ed.), Encounters with world affairs: An introduction to international relations (1st ed, pp. 348-363). Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge.

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