Effects of global television news on U.S. policy in international conflict

Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-31

  Gilboa, Eytan ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403980335     Document Type: Chapter

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