MITRA4001 – Reading course I - Key Issues in Modern International and Transnational History
Syllabus for autumn 2019
All texts used in this course are available online via Oria.
Week one – Introduction
Taylor, P. (2003). Munitions of the Mind. 3rd Ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.1-18, pp.249-282, pp.298-319.
Welch, D. (2004). Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft: Constructing a People’s Community. Journal of Contemporary History, 39(2), pp.213–238.
Fuchs, C. (2018). Propaganda 2.0: Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model in the Age of the Internet, Big Data and Social Media. In: Pedro-Carañana, J., Broudy, D. and Klaehn, J. (eds.), The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness. London: University of Westminster Press, pp. 71–92.
Week two – Public Opinion
Lippman, W. (1922). Public Opinion. Ch.1. (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6456/pg6456-images.html)
Hucker, D. (2012). International History and Study of Public Opinion: Towards Methodological Clarity, The International History Review, 34(4), pp.775-794.
Peters, J.D. (1995). Historical Tensions in the Concept of Public Opinion, In: T. Glasser & C. Salmon, eds., Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent. New York: The Guilford Press, pp.3-32.
Holsti, O. (1992). Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann Consensus Mershon Series: Research Programs and Debates, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 439-466.
Scheufele, D. & Tewksbury, B. (2007). Framing, Agenda Setting, and Priming: The Evolution of Three Media Effects Models. Journal of Communication. 57(1), pp.9–20.
Week three – Selling War I: The Domestic Audience
Jenks, J. (2006). British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.27-42; pp.62-79.
Holland, J. (2011). Blair’s War on Terror: Selling Intervention to Middle England. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 14(1), pp.74–95.
Johnson, R. (2012). Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis. In: D. Welch & J. Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.341-361
Badsey, S. (2012). Humanitarian War: Justifying Western Military Intervention, 1991–2001. In: D. Welch & J. Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.313-326.
McCrisken, T. (2012). Justifying sacrifice: Barack Obama and the selling and ending of the war in Afghanistan. International Affairs, 88(5), pp.993–1007.
Week four – Selling War II: The Foreign Audience
Allen, T. (1999). Perceiving Contemporary War. In: T. Allen & J. Seaton (eds.), The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence, New York: Zed Books, pp.11-42
Cull, N.J. (2012). Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency’s Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences. In: D. Welch & J. Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.288-310.
Zollman, F. (2015). Bad news from Fallujah. Media, War & Conflict, Vol. 8(3), pp.345–367.
Wei, S. (2014). News as a Weapon: Hollington Tong and the Formation of the Guomindang Centralized Foreign Propaganda System, 1937-1938. Twentieth-Century China, 39(2), pp.118–143.
Week five – Hate Speech and International Law
Gordon, G.S. (2014). The forgotten Nuremberg hate speech case: Otto Dietrich and the future of persecution law, Ohio State Law Journal, 75(3), pp.571-607.
Zahar, A. (2005). The ICTR’s “Media” Judgment and the Reinvention of Direct and Public Incitement to Commit Genocide, Criminal Law Forum, 16(1), pp. 33–48.
Timmermann, W.K. (2005). The Relationship between Hate Propaganda and Incitement to Genocide: A New Trend in International Law Towards Criminalization of Hate Propaganda? Leiden Journal of International Law, 18(2), p.257-282.