Eytan Gilboa is Professor of Communication and International Relations and faculty member of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

• About the Authors; World Perspectives on Media and Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Part I: Framing; Chapter 1: Media and the New Post-Cold War Movements, Andrew Rojecki; Chapter 2: The Battle in Seattle: How Nongovernmental Organizations Used Websites in Their Challenge to the WTO, Melissa A. Wall; Chapter 3: Spiral of Violence? Conflict and Conflict Resolution inInternational News, Christopher Beaudoin and Esther Thorson; Chapter 4: Relational Ripeness in the Oslo I and Oslo II Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, William A. Donohue and Gregory D. Hoobler; Chapter 5: Framing International Conflicts in Asia: A Comparative Analysis of News Coverage of Tokdo, Young Chul Yoon and Gwangho E.; Chapter 6: Framing Environmental Conflicts: The Edwards Aquifer Dispute, Linda L. Putnam; Part II: Media and Policy; Chapter 7: Sources, the Media and the Reporting of Conflict ,Howard Tumber; Chapter 8: An Exploratory Model of Media-Government Relations in International Crises: U.S. Involvement in Bosnia 1992–1995, Yaeli Bloch and Sam Lehman-Wilzig; Chapter 9: Global Television and Conflict Resolution: Defining the Limits of the CNN Effect, Piers Robinson; Chapter 10: Media Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Chapter 11: The Russian Media Role in the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya: A Case Study of Media Coverage by Izvestia Olga V. Malinkina and Douglas M. McLeod; Chapter 12: Effects of Ambiguous Policies on Media Coverage of Foreign Conflicts: The Cases of Eritrea and Southern Sudan, Meseret Chekol Reta; Part III: Media and the Public; Chapter 13: The South African Press: No Strangers to Conflict, Arnold S de Beer;Chapter 14: Cultural Conflict in the Middle East: The Media as Peacemakers, Dov Shinar; Chapter 15: The Media and Reconciliation in Central America, Sonia Gutiérrez-Villalobos; Chapter 16: The Crisis in Kosovo: Photographic News of the Conflict and Public Opinion, Kimberly L. Bissell; Chapter 17: Internet Public Relations: A Tool for Crisis Management, Shannon B. Campbell; Index.

REVIEWS An important and diverse collection.... This book brings the study of media and conflict to a new level of sophistication. -- Robert M. Entman, Professor and Head, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University. A wonderful, multi-discipline attempt to understand the complicated intersection of communications and political strife. -- Susan Herbst, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University