Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate

PART I: THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WESTERN ALLIANCE: AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND AUSTRALIA A Debate Delayed Is a Debate Denied: U.S. News Media Before the 2003 War With Iraq W.A.Dorman Strange Bedfellows: The Emergence of the Al Qaeda - Baathist News Frame Prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq S.Livingston & L.Robinson Their Morals are Ours: The American Media on the Doctrine of 'Preemptive War' M.Piety & B.J.Foley The Whole World Is Watching, But So What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Antiwar Protest R.Bishop Postmodern War on Iraq (UK) P.Hammond Orientalism Revisited: The British Media and the Iraq War J.Brown The War in Iraq: A View from Australia D.V.Dimitrova Part II: THE WORLD IS TALKING Le Monde on a 'Likely' Iraq War (France) A.Obajtek-Kirkwood The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists? (Germany) S.Schlichting-Artur Shear and Opaque Screens: The Medical Ethnography of Arabic Television, a Phenomenological Quandary of Communal Memory, Suffering and Resistance I.Roushdy-Hammady Their War or Our War: Whose War Is It Anyway? The Role of the Israeli Media Discourse Built-Up of a War Agenda L.Mandelzis & C.Naveh Why the Russians Did Not Like It: A Frame Analysis of the Russian Television Coverage of the Coming of the 2003 War in Iraq A.Nikolaev Clashing World Views: Coverage of the Prewar Iraqi Crisis in the Chinese Press L.Mangione The Coverage of Debates on the Iraq War: A Case for Zimbabwe S.Matenda Turn on, Tune in: Language of War in Iraq (Chile, Mexico and Spain) M.Matus-Mendoza