The present study examines how Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018 was framed in political cartoons published in the American and French media. The paper offers a thematic analysis of cartoons published from May 8 to June 8, 2018, the peak period for publication of cartoons on the Iran nuclear deal, and accessed via Google images. The...

Existing research has considered the effect of domestic unrest on repression and the effect of repression on subsequent unrest. However, governments’ strategic incentives to use repression as a targeted measure in order to prevent – as opposed to respond to – unrest altogether are understood little. This thesis analyses armed ethnic conflict as well as government repression targeted at ethnic g...

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted in the late 1980s and passed into military stage 1991, had been frozen for many years. sudden hostilities unleashed September 2020 led to regional destabilization South Caucasus. Unlike previously, this time conflict saw active role of Turkey that primarily affected Russia’s national interests issues its geopolitical power post-Soviet space. West, fa...

The Scopes trial has long been interpreted through claims about science and religion individual rights liberties. This article recovers a different debate the trial's political history that emerged in later 1920s resonated down twentieth century. Here figured as fraught national circus, which raised difficult questions relationship between media spectacle cultural conflict United States. circus...

INTRODUCTION As scientific, media and individual opinions on the need for seasonal influenza vaccination differ, we explored patients' decisional conflict and perceived physician and social support when making a vaccination choice. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a survey of patients with previous vaccination experience in a single family medicine office in Split, Croatia. The questionnaire...

Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews in media outlets owned by News Corp, such as the Wall Street Journal, and Time Warner, such as Time. We find higher ratings for 20th Century Fox movies in News Corp. outlets compared to mo...

Ethical challenges facing research and reporting from conflict-affected zones are well known; among them is the difficulty of finding reliable information; the tendency to take sides and define actors as either good or evil; the precarious security situation of residents and the ever-changing scenarios on the ground. We observed, however, that these challenges go unacknowledged in research and ...

War coverage has a strong bias towards promoting conflict escalation, and – though less pronounced – this bias often survives in post-war coverage as well. Even after wars end, only a few journalists frame conflict in a strongly de-escalation-oriented way. Do they have a chance to reach the public? Will their audience regard their reports as more or less balanced and unbiased? Will their report...