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Simons G..
Communication Management and the Humanitarian War Blueprint: the Libya War
// Conflict Studies / nota bene. – 2014. – № 1.
– P. 65-88.
DOI: 10.7256/.2014.1.13076.
rubric Вооруженные конфликты и войны
DOI: 10.7256/.2014.1.13076
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Abstract: Communication Management has become a common tool in the arsenal of the West in the context
of trying to build the pretext for war, and then controlling the information flows after the fighting has begun.
It is an attempt to justify the seemingly unjustifiable, where reason and logic are distorted, and the use of emotion
is actively promoted. In the 21st century, its use has come to be common place in the settling of scores and
the advancement of national interest in international relations (Pashenstev & Simons, 2009). Methodological
basis of the research is a systematic, structural-functional, comparative political and comparative-historical
approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, observation, simulation, expert assessments. Certainly, one may
now even speak of a blueprint for going to war being established. This has been gradually shaped and refined
by events such as the 1991 Gulf War, 1999 Kosovo War and the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.Libya
gave the opportunity to operationalize the blueprint, which in political terms proved to be successful, in terms
of managing the information environment in order to promote a dubious political agenda (going to war against
Libya under Gadaffi). The current situation in Syria points to the urgent need to be able to understand and to
counter these tactics.
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References (transliteration):
Bennett, W. L., Lawrence, R. G. & Livingston, S., When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media From Iraq to Katrina, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2007
DiMaggio, A. R., Mass Media, Mass Propaganda: Examining the American News in the “War on Terror”, Lanham (MD), Lexington Books, 2009
Pashentsev, E. & Simons, G. (Editors), The Rising Role of Communication Management in World Politics and Business, Moscow, Slovo Publishing, 2009
Simons G., Selling conflict in the 21st century: PR or advertising the way of public consent? in Topical Issues of Advertising: Theory and Practice: collection of Papers. Vol. II. / Editor-in-Chief A.V. Prokhorov. Tambov: The Publishing House of TSU named after G.R. Derzhavin, 2010, pp. 45-53
Simons, G., Mass Media and the Battle for Public Opinion in the Global War on Terror: Violence and legitimacy in Iraq, Perceptions Journal, Volume 13, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 79-92
Taylor, P. M., Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day, 3rd Edition, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003
Zelizer, B. & Allan, S. (Editors), Journalism After September 11, London, Routledge, 2002
Andrei Manoilo. “Revoluciones de los higos”, elemento enfurecido o «caos controlado»? // Vida Internacional. Digest. 2011. pp. 148-16
Evseev V.V. Siriyskiy krizis pod uglom rossiysko-amerikanskikh otnosheniy // Natsional'naya bezopasnost' / nota bene. - 2013. - 6. - C. 111 - 121. DOI: 10.7256/2073-8560.2013.6.10128.
Vinogradova E.A. Rol' publichnoy diplomatii ALBA v uregulirovanii siriyskogo konflikta // NB: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya. - 2015. - 1. - C. 55 - 65. DOI: 10.7256/2306-4226.2015.1.12619. URL: http://www.e-notabene.ru/wi/article_12619.html
Manoylo A.V. Rol' strategiy upravlyaemogo khaosa v formirovanii novogo miroporyadka // Pravo i politika. - 2014. - 5. - C. 638 - 651. DOI: 10.7256/1811-9018.2014.5.11816.