Coverage of African Conflicts in the American Media:

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" Coverage of African Conflicts in the American Media: "
Christopher R. Cook

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063456
Doc. No	:	LA107085
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341273‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Christopher R. Cook
Title & Author	:	Coverage of African Conflicts in the American Media: [Article] : Filtering out the Logic of Plunder\ Christopher R. Cook
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/4
Page No	:	373–390
Abstract	:	Through an analysis of the Liberian Civil War I argue that elite media and foreign policy decision makers share a classical set of assumptions about conflicts in the developing world that I call Westphalian. This paradigm privileges the Eurocentric nation state and its notions of power, ideology, and violence while intentionally or not, falsely reinforcing the rigid separation of government from the private economic sphere. In the end, this Westphalian lens of power obscures the new faces of transnational conflict networks and the importance of economic sub-state actors in creating violence based purely on economic motivations and greed Through an analysis of the Liberian Civil War I argue that elite media and foreign policy decision makers share a classical set of assumptions about conflicts in the developing world that I call Westphalian. This paradigm privileges the Eurocentric nation state and its notions of power, ideology, and violence while intentionally or not, falsely reinforcing the rigid separation of government from the private economic sphere. In the end, this Westphalian lens of power obscures the new faces of transnational conflict networks and the importance of economic sub-state actors in creating violence based purely on economic motivations and greed
Descriptor	:	civil war
Descriptor	:	economic
Descriptor	:	Euro-centric
Descriptor	:	Liberia
Descriptor	:	news coverage
Descriptor	:	sub-state
Descriptor	:	violence
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341273‬