RUSSIA AND THE WORLD IN THE

Increasingly commercialised news media organisations play an important part in the global flow of modern communications. The impact of the media and their relationship to the international system has scarcely begun to be appreciated. In Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945, Philip Taylor traces the increased involvement of the media in issues of war and peace. The author analyses the nature, role and influence of communications within the international arena in the modern world and its interaction with foreign policy. Politics, society, culture, the economy and foreign affairs are all now inseparable from the information created and exchanged on an international basis. Mass communication and mass media are comparatively recent phenomena but provide the conditions in which politicians, statesmen and soldiers have been increasingly forced to operate. Using case studies which include the Gulf War and Vietnam, Global Communications details contemporary problems of reportage whilst also providing a comprehensive historical context. This book offers a study of media in practice rather than in theory and details the realities of living in an information age. Global Communications provides an accessible guide to this growing field for students of communications studies, media studies, international relations and international history. Philip Taylor is Reader in International Communications and Deput