Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: The West's Destruction of Yugoslavia -- Part II: Seeing the Enemy -- Part III: Reporting the War around the World -- The Manichean Struggle -- Part I. The West's Destruction of Yugoslavia -- 1. Nato and the New World Order: Ideals and Self- Interest -- The Problem and the Solution -- Happy Birthday Dear Nato -- Changing the Rules -- Ideals and Self- Interest -- The Free Marketplace of Ideas -- The New Crusade -- The Fruits of Humanitarian War -- Notes -- 2. Western Intervention and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 -- Introduction -- 1989-1991: The End of Federal Yugoslavia -- 1992-1995: The Disintegration of Bosnia -- 1996-1999: The Protectorate Solution -- Conclusion: Disintegration and International Intervention -- Notes -- 3. War Crimes -- The Experience So Far -- Kosovo: The Political Tribunal -- The Media and the ICTY -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. The War and its Aftermath -- Evaluation Against Aims -- War Diplomacy -- The End of the War -- Nato and the National Question -- Russia's Role and the UN -- The New Post- War Political Conflicts in the Western Balkans -- The Wider European Aftermath -- Notes -- Part II. Seeing the Enemy -- 5. New Militarism and the Manufacture of Warfare -- The Making of New Militarism -- The New Militarist Adventures of the 1980s -- The Contradictions of the New Militarism Post- 1991 -- 6. Nazifying the Serbs, from Bosnia to Kosovo -- Notes -- 7. The Military and the Media -- Learning from the Gulf War -- Learning to Love the Enemy -- Learning to Work with Friends -- Learning from Kosovo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Symbolic Warfare: Nato versus the Serbian Media -- Notes -- Part III. Reporting the War Around the World -- 9. Following Washington's Script: The United States Media and Kosovo -- Invisible Rebels -- Diplomatic Rewriting.

'They Need Some Bombing' -- Negotiation = Capitulation -- 'Give War a Chance' -- 'Accidents' Will Happen -- Reliable Sources -- Notes -- 10. CNN: Selling Nato's War Globally -- CNN's Institutional Constraints -- The Nato-CNN Partnership -- Sources tapped by CNN during the Kosovo war -- CNN in the Kosovo War: Case Studies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 11. Third Way War: New Labour, the British Media and Kosovo -- The Press -- The Broadcasters -- Refugees and Atrocities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12. Censorship by Omission -- ( From the Statesman, 19 April 1999) -- ( From the Guardian, 18 May 1999) -- ( From the New Statesman, 28 June 1999) -- (From the Guardian ,19/20 May, and the New Statesman , 15 November 1999) -- 13. The French Media and the Kosovo War -- Mondialisation à la Monde -- Europe Meets Yugoslavia -- Bosnia and the Furia Francese -- BHL, Superstar -- Politically Correct, French- Style -- A Soul for Europe -- Notes -- 14. From 'Never again War' to 'Never again Auschwitz': Dilemmas of German Media Policy in the War against Yugoslavia -- Red-Green Acid Test -- Paradigm Shift -- Undermining Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 15. 'Thank you God! Thank you Norway!' Norwegian Newspapers and the Kosovo War -- Licensed to Bomb -- Us and Them -- Propaganda Techniques -- 16. The Greek 'Participation' in Kosovo -- Before the Bombing -- During the Bombing -- Notes -- 17. Consensus and Conflict in the Russian Press -- Russia in the New World Order -- The Limits of 'Brotherhood' -- The Propaganda War and the Russian Media -- Conclusion -- 18. India -- How Representative is the English-Language Press? -- The Nature of Indian Media Reports and Analyses -- An Explanation of the Indian Media's Reaction -- Notes -- Conclusions: First Casualty and Beyond -- Rewriting History -- Misrepresenting the Rambouillet Conference.

Demonisation and Atrocities Management -- The ICTY as an Arm of Nato -- The Media's Role: A 'CNN Effect'? -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Seth Ackerman -- David Chandler -- Thomas Deichmann -- Goran Gocic -- Peter Gowan -- Philip Hammond -- Edward S. Herman -- Mick Hume -- Diana Johnstone -- Richard Keeble -- Jim Naureckas -- Lilia Nizamova -- David Peterson -- John Pilger -- Nikos Raptis -- Karin Trandheim Røn -- Irena Savelieva -- Mirjana Skoco -- Raju G. C. Thomas -- Siddharth Varadarajan -- William Woodger -- References -- Index -- ABC [American Broadcasting Company] 108-10 -- ABC [American Broadcasting Company], -- 37 -- 76 -- Abdic, Fikret 26 -- Abramowitz, Morton 12 -- Afghanistan -- 67 -- 145 -- 181 -- Albania -- 42 -- 44 -- 48 -- 75 -- 99 -- 134 -- 171 -- 173 -- 197 -- 203 -- Albright, Madeleine -- 12 -- 90 -- 193 -- 207 -- on economic sanctions, 55 -- on indictment of Milosevic, 206 -- on sanctions against Iraq, 107 -- role in pre-bombing diplomacy, 102 -- role in pre-bombing diplomacy, 116 -- setting the tone for US media coverage, 97-100 -- Amanpour, Christiane -- 112-14 -- 120 -- 187 -- Annan, Kofi -- 50 -- 68 -- 114 -- 193 -- 198 -- Arbour, Louise -- 34-6 -- 120 -- 206 -- Argentina [see also Falklands War] -- 63 -- 134 -- Association of German Journalists 153 -- Austria -- 22 -- 134 -- 203 -- Badinter Commission 22 -- Bangladesh -- 188 -- 194 -- BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] -- 37 -- 70 -- 75-7 -- 90 -- 122 -- 185 -- Newsnight, 76 -- Newsnight, 93 -- Newsnight, 129 -- Newsnight, 133 -- Newsnight, 205 -- propaganda role, 125-6 -- propaganda role, 128-30 -- propaganda role, 132-5 -- propaganda role, 140 -- propaganda role, 186-8 -- propaganda role, 196-9 -- propaganda role, 201 -- Bell, Martin -- 37 -- 84 -- Benn, Tony 215 -- Bennis, Phyllis 115 -- Berezovsky, Boris 177 -- Berliner Zeitung.

18 -- 119 -- Bernath, Clifford 84 -- Biberson, Philippe 130 -- Bildt, Carl 27 -- Binder, David -- 54 -- 98-9 -- 127 -- Blair, Tony -- 53 -- 69 -- 85 -- 90 -- 132-8 -- 140 -- 155 -- 187 -- 192 -- advocacy of ground invasion, 54 -- attempts to stifle media criticism, 70 -- attempts to stifle media criticism, 123 -- attempts to stifle media criticism, 125-6 -- attempts to stifle media criticism, 186 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 66-7 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 75 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 77 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 123 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 130 -- moralistic rhetoric, x, 136 -- on globalisation, 49 -- Blewitt, Graham 42 -- Blitzer, Wolf 114 -- Bondevik, Kjell Magne -- 164 -- 168-9 -- Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 16 -- 32 -- 34 -- 37 -- 71-2 -- 84 -- 131 -- 146-7 -- 187 -- failure of Western protectorate regime, 27-9 -- false idealisation of, 143-4 -- false idealisation of, 149-51 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 2 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 74-7 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 124 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 127 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 141 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 157 -- media coverage as precursor of Kosovo reporting, 207 -- Nato bombing of, 19 -- Nato bombing of, 27 -- Nato bombing of, 69 -- war as morality play, 25-6 -- Western role in promoting war, 23-7 -- Western role in promoting war, 29-30 -- Western role in promoting war, 203 -- Boutros-Ghali, Boutros -- 32 -- 121 -- Boyle, Francis 115 -- Brioni Agreement 22-3 -- Britain -- 2 -- 37 -- 60 -- 62-3 -- 66 -- 73 -- 76 -- 130 -- 155 -- 161 -- 186 -- 188 -- 192 -- 197 -- 200 -- 205 -- media support for bombing, 69 -- media support for bombing, 123-31 -- media support for bombing, 132-40 -- military spending, 60.

military spending, 130 -- obsession with Second World War, 71 -- obsession with Second World War, 77 -- willingness to subvert UN authority, 49-50 -- British Helsinki Human Rights Group 131 -- Brzezinski, Zbigniew -- 13 -- 145 -- Bulgaria -- 18 -- 48 -- Burns, Nicholas 171 -- Bush, George -- 9 -- 16 -- 18 -- 64-5 -- 68 -- 132 -- 135 -- 192 -- Cambodia -- ix -- 31 -- Campbell, Alastair -- 70 -- 85 -- 123 -- 125-6 -- 128 -- 186 -- Carlson, Bruce 89 -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- 30 -- 'Self-Determination in the New World Order', 11-12 -- Carrington, Edward 23 -- Cassese, Antonio 31-2 -- Cem, Ismail 171 -- Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -- 61 -- 64 -- 68 -- 91 -- Chartier, Christian 33 -- Chatelet, Christophe 122 -- Chechnya -- 8 -- 13 -- 17-18 -- 181 -- Cheku, Agim 208 -- Cheney, Dick 79 -- Chernomyrdin, Viktor -- 44 -- 104 -- Chevènement, Jean-Pierre 150 -- China -- 13 -- 186 -- 188 -- 191-3 -- 195 -- 198 -- Chirac, Jacques -- 44 -- 53 -- 148 -- Chomsky, Noam -- 54 -- 115 -- 121 -- 173 -- 203 -- 208 -- Clark, Ramsey 115 -- Clark, Wesley -- vii -- 42 -- 48 -- 55 -- 86 -- 90 -- 114 -- 119 -- 128 -- 133 -- 136 -- 207 -- Clinton administration -- 8 -- 12 -- 14 -- 44-5 -- 47-9 -- 51 -- 53 -- 55 -- 186-7 -- Clinton, Bill -- vii -- x -- 14 -- 66 -- 69 -- 75 -- 84 -- 90 -- 93 -- 109 -- 130 -- 132-7 -- 139 -- 155 -- 171 -- 198 -- Cluster Bombs -- viii -- 35 -- 205 -- CNN [Cable Network News] -- 3 -- 102 -- 161 -- 172 -- 175 -- 185-6 -- 188 -- 196-8 -- 'CNN effect', 81 -- 'CNN effect', 111 -- 'CNN effect', 207-8 -- as Nato war promoter, 111-15 -- as Nato war promoter, 120-1 -- as Nato war promoter, 201 -- biased sourcing, 114-15 -- institutional constraints, 112-13 -- Cohen, William -- 41 -- 73 -- 139 -- Cohn, Marjorie 115 -- Colombia -- 132 -- 136 -- Contact Group -- 101 -- 102 -- Cook, Robin -- 35.

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