The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making, and Humanitarian Intervention

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by  Douglas Brommesson, Ann-Marie Ekengren (auth.)

THE PALGRAVE MACMILLAN SERIES IN
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
THE MEDIATIZATION
OF FOREIGN POLICY,
POLITICAL DECISION-
MAKING AND
HUMANITARIAN
INTERVENTION
Douglas Brommesson
Ann-Marie Ekengren
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Douglas Brommesson • Ann-Marie Ekengren
The Mediatization of
Foreign Policy, Political
Decision- Making and
Humanitarian
Intervention
Douglas Brommesson Ann-Marie Ekengren
Lund University University of Gothenburg
Lund, Sweden Göteborg, Sweden
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A
cknowledgments
We would like to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to a num-
ber of people and organizations that have contributed in important ways
to this book.
We have the privilege to be part of two inspiring research environments,
the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and
the Department of Political Science at Lund University. We are indebted
to a number of great colleagues at these research environments for their
comments on earlier drafts of different parts of this book. Thank you! We
would especially like to thank both Elin Nolin and Aiysha Varraich who
made important contributions as our research assistants at different stages
of the project leading up to this book.
We would also like to extend our gratitude to colleagues at other
universities around the globe. We have presented papers that form the
basis for this book at several conferences organized by associations
such as the International Studies Association, the British International
Studies Association, the Swedish Political Science Association and the
Swedish Network for Foreign Policy Analysis. We have also presented
the project at seminars or lectures at Linnaeus University in Sweden; at
Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; and at the University of
Canterbury, New Zealand. To all who were part of discussions at these
different occasions: Thank you for important comments and feedback!
We are also indebted to the highly skillful diplomats in Finland, Sweden
and the United Kingdom that lent us their time for the interviews.
Let us also express our gratitude to the editorial team at Palgrave
MacMillan for their highly professional support.
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The Swedish Foundation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has
funded the research reported in this book. We are indeed very grateful for
this support.
Last but not least, we want to express our deepest gratitude to our clos-
est supporters—our families. Thank you so very much!
Gothenburg and Lund, December 2016
Douglas Brommesson Ann-Marie Ekengren
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ontents
1 Mediatization of Foreign Policy Decision-Making 1
2 The Scope Conditions of Mediatized Foreign Policy 13
3 Design and Methodological Concerns 33
4 Mediatization in the United Nations General Assembly 47
5 Political Logic at Play in Côte d’Ivoire 75
6 Mixed Logics at Play in Libya 117
7 Conclusion: Toward a Theory on the Variation
of Mediatization of Foreign Policy 173
References 193
Index 203
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Fig. 4.1 Number of UNGA statements with an individualized focus 59
Fig. 4.2 Number of UNGA statements characterized by a political logic 60
Fig. 4.3 References to climate and the environment in UNGA speeches
of the UK, Sweden and Finland, 1992–2010 62
Fig. 4.4 Differences in the form of UNGA speeches of the UK, Sweden
and Finland, 1992–2010 64
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Table 2.1 Analytical framework for political logic and media logic
in policy form and content 28
Table 4.1 British arguments in the UNGA general debates 1994–2010 54
Table 4.2 Swedish arguments in the UNGA general debates 1994–2010 56
Table 4.3 Finnish arguments in the UNGA general debates 1994–2010 57
Table 5.1 Number of articles mentioning search word Côte d’Ivoire
with different combinations during the time period
2010/01/07–2011/30/06 83
Table 5.2 Empirical results for our case in Côte d’Ivoire: political logic
or media logic and foreign policy form or content 113
Table 6.1 Number of articles on Libya during the spring of 2011
in the Finnish, Swedish and British media 121
Table 6.2 Empirical results for the foreign policy roles in the Libyan case:
Political logic or media logic and foreign policy form or content 170
Table 7.1 F requency of media entries on Libya and Côte d’Ivoire
in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011 176
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