Through an orange-colored lens: Western media, constructed imagery, and color revolutions

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-115

  Schipani Adúriz, Andrés ^a  

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Author keywords

Color revolutions; Democracy promotion; Democratic breakdowns; Foreign correspondence; Foreign news; Velvet Revolution; Western media

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ELECTION; WAR;

ASIA; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GEORGIA; KYRGYZSTAN; NORTH AMERICA; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES; WEST ASIA;

EID: 34249824579     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.15.1.87-116     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of Soviets (London: Last Gasp, 2003), 15.
2. Ian Traynor, "Young Democracy Guerrillas Join Fomes," The Guardian, June 6, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/ story/0,,1499871,00.html (accessed January 17, 2006).
3. Natalia Antelava, "How to Stage a Revolution," BBC News, April 4, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/3288547.stm (accessed January 23, 2006).
4. C. J. Chivers, "Ukraine's Leader Looks Back in Melancholy," New York Times, January 21, 2005.
5. Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich, "The Orange Revolution," Time, November 2004, http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/ article/0,13005,901041206-832153,00.html?cnn=yes (accessed January 24, 2006).
6. Jackson Diehl, "Battle for Belarus," Washington Post, January 3, 2005.
7. Quentin Peel, "A Chance for an Unlikely Peacemaker," Financial Times (London), November 3, 2005.
8. Leonard Cohen, Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Milošević (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001), 420-25.
9. In Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, although the fraudulent elections were for the legislature, the conflict was still resolved by the resignation of the current president and the election of an opposition leader in a subsequent early election (author's note).
10. Michael McFaul, "Transitions from Post-Communism," Journal of Democracy 16, no. 3 (2005): 6.
11. It is not possible to ascribe the changes of the period 1989-91 merely to live broadcasting, satellite television, or increased international communications. On the other hand, it is similarly difficult to see how such changes could have taken place without those factors. Barry Elliott, former head of the BBC Central European Services, claimed in 1992: "In terms of keeping hope alive and spreading democratic ideas of really putting it to the people that there were alternatives, yes, I think we did have a role. We were not propounding a change of regime - that wasn't part of our job - but we were stimulating the democratic process, and providing a whole range of views; by reporting strikes and demonstrations that people would not have heard about from their own media we encouraged them to come out and demonstrate." Andrew Walker, A Skyful of Freedom: 60 Years of the BBC World Service (London: Broadside, 1992), 128.