The CNN Effect in Action: How the News Media Pushed the West toward War in Kosovo

by Babak Bahador

This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area.

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2007