The Media and Foreign Policy

Serfaty, Simon

Palgrave Macmillan（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 249 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781349120741
• DDC分類 327

Full Description

In this volume journalists and officials, as well as academic experts, analyze the respective roles of the press and the government in the formulation and implementation of American foreign policy. It examines the influence of the media on issues such as the US involvement in Vietnam.

Contents

Part 1 Who sets the agenda?President's story, Philip L.Geyelin; Libya - a government story, R.Gregory Nokes; diplomacy in a television age - the dangers of a teledemocracy, David Gergen; the congress and the media - forces in the struggle over foreign policy, Robert J. Kurz. Part 2 Who says what?: leakers, terrorists, policy makers and the press, John P.Wallach; terrorism, media coverage and government response, Robert B.Oakley; the care and handling of leaks, Robert J McCloskey; secrets, Michael A. Ledeen. Part 3 Do the media matter?: the news media and national security, Richard R.Burt; woefully inadequate - the press's handling of arms control, Kenneth L. Adelman; US intelligence - current problems in historical perspective, William E.Odom; a view from the executive branch, Robert E.McFarlane. Part 4 Beyond the beltway: foreign policy and the provincial press, Charles W. Bailey; notes on freedom of the press in Britain and America, Harold Evans; the Italian press and the Moro affair, John L.Harper; new communications technolocy and the international political process, David Webster; neither hero nor villian, Simon Serfaty.