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Mediatization of Foreign Policy Decision-Making

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

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In the introductory chapter the central argument of the book is introduced: the need to empirically study the scope conditions of mediatization. Based on this discussion, the aim of the book is defined and the central concepts of mediatization, media logic, scope conditions and foreign policy roles are introduced. Here media logic is contrasted with political logic.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We return to a more detailed discussion on these concepts below.

  2. 2.

    David L. Altheide and Robert P. Snow first coined an often-cited definition of media logic: “Media logic consists of a form of communication; the process through which media present and transmit information. Elements of this form include the various media and the formats used by these media. Format consists, in part, of how material is organized, the style in which it is presented, the focus of emphasis on particular characteristics of behavior, and the grammar of media communication. Format becomes a framework or a perspective that is used to present as well as interpret phenomena.” (Altheide and Snow 1979: 10) As we will return to in the second chapter of this book, there is reason to expect that the specific forms Altheide and Snow refer to when defining media logic can also have effect on the content of politics.

  3. 3.

    See also an emerging research agenda on the mediatization of foreign policy (Crosbie 2014; Maltby 2012 and Pamment 2014).

  4. 4.

    Libya stands out here because of the highly problematic situation in the country in the years following the intervention in 2011.

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  2. University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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Brommesson, D., Ekengren, AM. (2017). Mediatization of Foreign Policy Decision-Making. In: The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making, and Humanitarian Intervention. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54461-2_1

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