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Your Country, Our War - Katherine A. Brown

Your Country, Our War

The Press and Diplomacy in Afghanistan
Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-087941-9 (ISBN)
CHF 48,55 inkl. MwSt
Based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and eight years of interviews, this book reviews the dynamics between Afghan and U.S. journalists, and the global diplomatic power of the American press within the context of the post-9/11 era.
Journalists are actors in international relations, mediating communications between governments and publics, but also between the administrations of different countries. American and foreign officials simultaneously consume the work of U.S. journalists and use it in their own thinking about how to conduct their work. As such, journalists play an unofficial diplomatic role. However, the U.S. news media largely amplifies American power. Instead of stimulating greater understanding, the U.S. elite, mainstream press can often widen mistrust as they promote an American worldview and, with the exception of some outliers, reduce the world into a tight security frame in which the U.S. is the hegemon. This has been the case in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly as emerging Afghan journalists have relied significantly on U.S. and other Western news outlets to report events within their government and their country.

Based on eight years of interviews in Kabul, Washington, and New York, Your Country, Our War demonstrates how news has intersected with international politics during the War in Afghanistan and shows the global power and reach of the U.S. news media, especially within the context of the post-9/11 era. It reviews the trajectory of the U.S. news narrative about Afghanistan and America's never-ending war, and the rise of Afghan journalism, from 2001 to 2017. The book also examines the impact of the American news media inside a war theater. It examines how U.S. journalists affected the U.S.-Afghan relationship and chronicles their contribution to the rapid development of a community of Afghan journalists who grappled daily with how to define themselves and their country during a tumultuous and uneven transition from fundamentalist to democratic rule. Providing rich detail about the U.S.-Afghan relationship, especially former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's convictions about the role of the Western press, we begin to understand how journalists are not merely observers to a story; they are participants in it.

Katherine Brown is Adjunct Professonial Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University. She is also currently the President and CEO of Global Ties U.S. She began her career in the National Security Council at the White House and first traveled to Afghanistan in 2003 as a U.S. embassy press aide, to return several times over 13 years.

Preface: Kabul
Chapter 1: Hamid Karzai vs. The New York Times
Chapter 2: 9/11 and the American Press
Chapter 3: Afghanistan in Americans' Imagination
Chapter 4: The Afghan Press
Chapter 5: The Modern Afghan Journalist
Chapter 6: U.S. Correspondents in Afghanistan
Chapter 7: Your Country, Our War
Chapter 8: The Diplomatic Dimension of News
Appendix I: Methodology
Appendix II: Interviews
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 234 x 155 mm
Gewicht 386 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-19-087941-6 / 0190879416
ISBN-13 978-0-19-087941-9 / 9780190879419
Zustand Neuware
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