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This volume applies communications framing theory as a means of exploring how the mass media and outside diplomats have perceived and represented violence in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Devoting most of its focus to the middle two, the study finds that the media and diplomats tended to apply stereotypical frames that obscured the true causes of violence and humanitarian frames that posited humanitarian aid as the best response to the crises. It also argues that diplomats used frames that rationalized inaction on the part of the international community, partly by employing such terms as "ethnic cleansing" and "tribal massacre" in preference to the stronger term of "genocide." Musa is professor of political science at Redlands University. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
