Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- ORGANIZATION OF THE ARGUMENT -- CHAPTER 1: Building theory -- INITIAL PRINCIPLES -- FOUR MAJOR TYPES OF INFLUENCE -- THE STATIC MODEL -- IMMEDIACY -- THE SEARCH FOR DRAMA -- SIMPLICITY -- ETHNOCENTRISM -- THE PRINCIPLE OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES -- CHANGES OVER TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE: THE DYNAMIC MODEL -- NUMBER AND INTENSITY OF CRISES -- THE POLITICS-MEDIA-POLITICS CYCLE -- DON'T THE MEDIA SOMETIMES INITIATE SUCH CYCLES? -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT -- THE DANGERS OF SENSATIONALISM -- SHARED MEDIA -- IN SUM -- CHAPTER 2: The initial stages of Oslo -- PROMOTING PEACE TO THE MEDIA -- POLITICS AS A SERIES OF EVENTS -- THE PROBLEMS OF SENSATIONALISM -- AN ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER STORIES -- THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA DURING TERRORIST WAVES -- NARRATIVE STRUCTURE -- INFLUENCES OF TERRORISM WAVES ON THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT -- IN SUM … -- CHAPTER 3: The Israeli media and the debate over Oslo -- THE OPPOSITION TO OSLO -- THE MEDIA AND THE RABIN ASSASSINATION -- THE ELECTIONS OF 1996 -- COMPETING FRAMES OF OSLO -- ELECTION NEWS -- IN SUM … -- CHAPTER 4: The Palestinians and the Israeli media -- THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP AND THE ISRAELI PRESS -- STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TO THE PALESTINIAN MESSAGE -- CHANGING IMAGES OF THE ENEMY -- NEW ENEMIES REPLACE THE OLD -- TERRORISM AND THE MEDIA FROM A HAMAS PERSPECTIVE -- The Hamas message -- LESSONS ABOUT ENEMIES IN THE NEWS MEDIA -- CHAPTER 5: The media and the Israel-Jordan peace process -- THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT IN JORDAN -- THE COVERAGE OF ISRAEL IN JORDAN -- CHANGES IN NEWS SLOTS -- THE COVERAGE OF JORDAN IN ISRAEL -- CHANGING NEWS SLOTS FOR JORDAN -- IN SUM … -- CHAPTER 6: The media and the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland -- THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT -- THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT.

IN SUM … -- CHAPTER 7: The collapse of Oslo and the return to violence -- THE MEDIA, PEACE, AND THE NETANYAHU ERA -- THE FLOW OF NEWS: WHAT WAS MISSING? -- THE ISRAELI NEWS MEDIA AND THE CAMP DAVID SUMMIT -- THE COSTS OF PEACE -- CAMP DAVID AS AN ISOLATED EVENT -- ISRAELI GENEROSITY AND PALESTINIAN INTRANSIGENCE: UNMASKING ARAFAT -- THE ISRAELI NEWS MEDIA AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND INTIFADA -- CHANGES IN NEWS SLOTS: PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE AT THE CORE -- THE SYNERGY BETWEEN JOURNALISTS, THE MILITARY, AND THE GOVERNMENT -- Ethnocentric view of death -- Conclusion -- IMPLICATIONS FOR JOURNALISTS AND POLICY MAKERS -- Methodological appendix -- CHAPTER 2: THE INITIAL STAGES OF OSLO -- Content analysis of the first 250 days of Oslo -- CHAPTER 3: THE ISRAELI MEDIA AND THE DEBATE OVER OSLO -- Content analysis of Israeli editorials -- Content analysis of the Rabin assassination -- Content analysis of 1996 elections -- CHAPTER 4: THE PALESTINIANS AND THE ISRAELI MEDIA -- Interviews -- Content analysis of the Palestinian image in Israeli news media -- CHAPTER 5: THE MEDIA AND THE ISRAEL-JORDAN PEACE PROCESS -- Interviews with Jordanian and Israeli journalists -- Content analysis of Israeli/Jordanian news about the other -- CHAPTER 6: THE MEDIA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- Interviews with Northern Ireland journalists and political leaders -- Content analysis of editorials in the Northern Ireland press -- CHAPTER 7: THE COLLAPSE OF OSLO AND THE RETURN TO VIOLENCE -- References -- Index.