Description
Offers a detailed analysis of the Western media’s propaganda discourse over the Ukraine crisis
Information operations have played an increasingly important role in the conduct of US and NATO policy since the 90s
Author is a leading scholar of media and security issues
Will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, Russian politics, security studies and IR
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Immediate Causes of the 2014 Crisis
3. Liberal Freedom Fights or Fascist Militia?
4. Absent Context (1) Struggle for Eurasia
5. Absent Context (2) Preparing the Neoliberal Turn in Ukraine’s Economy
6. Crimea, Odessa, and Eastern Ukraine (Donbass)
7. Representation, Misrepresentation and the Demonizing of Vladimir Putin
8. The downing of MH17
9. The Russians are (maybe/probably not) Coming
10. Articulating the Principles of Western Conflict Propaganda
11. Conclusion
