Decisionmaking in a Glass House: Mass Media, Public Opinion, and American and European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

by Brigitte Nacos Columbia Univeristy (Editor), Robert Y. Shapiro (Editor), Pierangelo Isernia (Editor)

Overview

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of reference, foreign policy making has changed. As we enter the new century, the question is how and to what extent will the new realities of the post-Cold War world_as well as advances in communication technology_influence news reporting, public attitudes, and, most of all, foreign policy decisions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In this volume, American and European scholars examine change and continuity in these important aspects of the foreign policy process at the beginning of the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742576452
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/04/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Brigitte L. Nacos is adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University. Robert Y. Shapiro is professor of political science at Columbia University. Pierangelo Isernia is professor of Italian political systems at the University of Siena.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Old or New Ball Game? Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy in the Post?Cold War World
Chapter 2
Chapter I: The Media and Foreign Policy
Chapter 3 Declarations of Independence: The Growth of Media Power after the Cold War
Chapter 4 Media and Public Sphere without Borders? News Coverage and Power from Kurdistan to Kosovo
Chapter 5 New Issues and the Media: American and German News Coverage of the Global Warming Debate
Chapter 6 Government's Little Helper: U.S. Press Coverage of Foreign Policy Crises,1946-1999
Chapter 7 Toward General Theories of the Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
Chapter 8
Chapter II: Public and Elite Attitudes after the Cold War
Chapter 9 Elite Misperceptions of U.S. Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
Chapter 10 To Intervene or Not to Intervene in Bosnia: That Was the Question for the United States and Europe
Chapter 11 Internationalism at Bay? A Contextual Analysis of Americans' Post?Cold War Foreign Policy Attitudes
Chapter 12 NATO and European Security after the Cold War: Will European Citizens Support a Common Security Policy?
Chapter 13 Public Opinion after the Cold War: A Paradigm Shift
Chapter 14 Public Opinion and Decisionmaking in Russia: The Impact of NATO Expansion and Airstrikes on Serbia
Chapter 15 Public Attitudes after the Cold War
Chapter 16
Chapter III: The Public Opinion?Foreign Policy Linkage
Chapter 17 Who Leads and Who Follows? U.S. Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
Chapter 18 Public Opinion and European Integration: Permissive Consensus or Premature Politicization?
Chapter 19 Constraint, Catalyst or Political Tool? The French Public and Foreign Policy
Chapter 20 Where Angels Fear to Tread: Italian Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
Chapter 21 Toward a Comparative Analysis of the Public Opinion?Foreign Policy Connection

Editorial Reviews

A good candidate for contemporary status as a basic text from which to ponder how the broad theoretic framework of concepts identified by Hennessy has evolved in the 35 plus years since Lyndon Baines Johnson was in the White House and Nikita Krushchev was in the Kremlin. The talent pool which produced this book runs wide and deep. One is hard put to cite a chapter that isn't worthwhile, either as a datamine or for the threoretic stimulation offered, and sometimes for both the quality and clarity of evidence and theory.

International Journal Of Public Opinion Research

These essays . . . provide important insights and raise provocative questions that will prove essential as a foundation upon which other scholars will base their research.

American Political Science Review

This excellent collection represents the state of the art in comparative studies of public opinion and foreign policy.

Bruce Russett

This is an excellent volume on the interactions among public attitudes, media behavior, and foreign policy. It is full of interesting insights and provocations from some of the best scholars and critics in the field, and it helps to illuminate the complex dynamics of post–Cold War media and opinion politics.

Susan Herbst

Each essay is a substantive treatment of its topic. Many of the eighteen essays are valuable individually.

Contemporary Sociology