Barbara Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 128473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5385-4187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Judged, Misrepresented and Misunderstood”
China and the Arab Gulf States, post-Covid
Over the past three years China's security and diplomatic engagement in the Middle East has been improvisational and opportunistic, seeking to exploit the US engagement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Gaza and serving the Chinese aim of using political and diplomatic support in the Middle East to counter what it sees as a US effort to encircle and contain China's power and influence. Yet China is not seeking to replace the US as …
Dragon unbound? Regional influences on China's policies in the Middle East—Introduction
China has manifested its aspiration to create an interdependent global network that integrates its commercial, strategic, political, and cultural connections across the world. Eurasia, and the Middle East and North Africa within it, have certainly become a core part of China's global design. This volume aims to explain the process of Chinese expansion in the Middle East from an ‘inside‐out’ perspective. It includes a series of country‐specific ca…
Sino–American relations and the ‘new cold war’
This article examines the value of the ‘Cold War’ analogy – which has become a commonly used shorthand to describe the Sino–American rivalry – for understanding the effects of the current great power competition in the Middle East. Instead of thinking in terms of the zero‐sum logic of the Cold War, we are using the Cold War history in the Middle East as a heuristic device to sharpen our understanding of today's dilemmas. In other words, we are ar…
Saudi Arabia’s Reluctant Regionalism
Nationalism and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This essay examines three new books about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) by focusing on the role of Saudi nationalism in the Kingdom. This essay seeks to frame the discussion of nationalism in historical terms, identifying how it represents a new formula for political legitimacy in the Kingdom. Nationalism is being used by the monarchy to reconstruct and mobilize the Saudi nation. The Saudi state would like to see Saudi youth and Sa…
Adolescents’ Victim-Blaming Responses to Narratives About Sex Trafficking
In the United States, sex-trafficking awareness and prevention has increasingly become part of government-mandated health education. This exploratory study surveyed 250 U.S. adolescents to learn more about the use of media narratives in curricula about sex trafficking in light of research findings about victim-blaming responses to survivor narratives, as well as adolescents' still-developing emotion-regulation skills. Victim blaming is counterpro…
Clausewitzian Alchemy and the Modern Character of War
Sex Trafficking as a News Story
This quantitative content analysis uses sex trafficking as a case study to understand how news reporting techniques evolve as a social problem emerges on the public agenda. Results indicate that as news organizations became more experienced in covering trafficking and the public made more aware of trafficking as a social issue, journalists moved from routines that favored official perspectives and frames that concentrated on individuals, to the s…
Iran's Hezbollah Model in Iraq and Syria
Historiography in Saudi Arabia
Jörg Matthias Determann's Historiography in Saudi Arabia explains the telling and retelling of Saudi history by Saudi scholars, characterizing modern Saudi historiography as a plurality of historical narratives. Determann's central argument is that Saudi scholars in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have produced a broad range of modern Saudi history. These works include dynastic histories and social and economic histories, as well a…
Weaponizing Sectarianism in Iraq and Syria
From union (ʾ īttihād ) to united ( muttahida )
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the result of more than three years of failed negotiations to unify the nine pre-state shaykhdoms. Thus, the formation of the UAE may be viewed as a success born of failure. In the period following the 1968 British announcement, the political events that led to the formation of the modern state of the UAE were largely a product of the competition for power or protection between the rulers of the nine pre-state s…
Putin's Russia in the Middle East
Nizameddin traces the continuity and change in Russia's evolving Middle East policies from the final days of the Soviet Union through the emergence of Vladimir Putin in 1998 and his return to the presidency, for a non-consecutive third term, in 2012. Russia's behavior in the Middle East is reminiscent of Soviet behavior during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. As Nizameddin's recent book shows, Russia is not only pursuing its interests in the Middle E…
Framing an Emerging Issue
Sex trafficking has increasingly become a topic on the public and political agenda. This study revealed that coverage of sex trafficking in U.S. print and broadcast media from 2008–2012 was largely episodic, focused on crime and policy frames, privileged official sources, and neglected survivors’ voices. However, findings suggest a shift toward thematic framing as the issue became more widely understood by the public and policymakers
The Arab Gulf States
This essay discusses two recent books about the Arab Gulf states that focus on regional security and domestic political change, respectively. The books are evaluated in light of the 2011 Arab uprisings, with an eye toward raising several new questions for future research: Regarding the Gulf's regional security, have the 2011 uprisings changed attitudes among the Arab Gulf states' ruling elites concerning the possibility of moving away from separa…
Veiled Threats
In October 2010, France approved a law banning the Islamic veil in all public areas, asserting the republican principle of laicité. This cross-cultural analysis applies Muhlmann's theoretical framework to French and US news coverage from March 2004 to October 2010 in order to discern whether coverage featured unifying frames invoking shared values; or decentering frames challenging consensual views and presenting alternative contexts
Framing the Problem of Sex Trafficking
News media play an important role in explaining the issue of sex trafficking and may influence discourse among the public and policymakers. Understanding the ways that mass media address sex trafficking has implications for the news industry and the global status of women. This study, a quantitative content analysis, analyzed news coverage of sex trafficking in major US newspapers to understand how the issue was framed during a year of coverage. …
Standpoint in Political Blogs
In 2005, political commentator Susan Estrich rebuked Michael Kinsley, then-editor of the Los Angeles Times, for excluding women from the newspaper's editorial pages. She argued that Kinsley neither
Entangling Alliances
Journal Article Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century Get access Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century. By Susan Zeiger. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xii, 299 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9717-4.) Barbara G. Friedman Barbara G. Friedman University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: …
A Path With Heart
It's September 12th
(2002). It's September 12th: Do You Know Where Afghanistan's Women Are? Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 137-139
History as the Metaphor through Which the Current World Is Viewed
Journalists have long been expected to provide information on important events as they occur: the who, what, where and when of breaking news. Yet, they also give the why and how of an event. Historical context can help interpret as well as augment the narrative, by tapping a collective memory, adding new evidence, revising a once agreed-upon past or imparting lessons and values. Although trained to examine the present, journalists in London, New …
Framing the Problem of Sex Trafficking
News media play an important role in explaining the issue of sex trafficking and may influence discourse among the public and policymakers. Understanding the ways that mass media address sex trafficking has implications for the news industry and the global status of women. This study, a quantitative content analysis, analyzed news coverage of sex trafficking in major US newspapers to understand how the issue was framed during a year of coverage. …
History as the Metaphor through Which the Current World Is Viewed
Journalists have long been expected to provide information on important events as they occur: the who, what, where and when of breaking news. Yet, they also give the why and how of an event. Historical context can help interpret as well as augment the narrative, by tapping a collective memory, adding new evidence, revising a once agreed-upon past or imparting lessons and values. Although trained to examine the present, journalists in London, New …
Framing an Emerging Issue
Sex trafficking has increasingly become a topic on the public and political agenda. This study revealed that coverage of sex trafficking in U.S. print and broadcast media from 2008–2012 was largely episodic, focused on crime and policy frames, privileged official sources, and neglected survivors’ voices. However, findings suggest a shift toward thematic framing as the issue became more widely understood by the public and policymakers
Sex Trafficking as a News Story
This quantitative content analysis uses sex trafficking as a case study to understand how news reporting techniques evolve as a social problem emerges on the public agenda. Results indicate that as news organizations became more experienced in covering trafficking and the public made more aware of trafficking as a social issue, journalists moved from routines that favored official perspectives and frames that concentrated on individuals, to the s…
Standpoint in Political Blogs
In 2005, political commentator Susan Estrich rebuked Michael Kinsley, then-editor of the Los Angeles Times, for excluding women from the newspaper's editorial pages. She argued that Kinsley neither
Weaponizing Sectarianism in Iraq and Syria
Saudi Arabia’s Reluctant Regionalism
It's September 12th
(2002). It's September 12th: Do You Know Where Afghanistan's Women Are? Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 137-139
History as the Metaphor through Which the Current World Is Viewed
Journalists have long been expected to provide information on important events as they occur: the who, what, where and when of breaking news. Yet, they also give the why and how of an event. Historical context can help interpret as well as augment the narrative, by tapping a collective memory, adding new evidence, revising a once agreed-upon past or imparting lessons and values. Although trained to examine the present, journalists in London, New …
A Path With Heart
Standpoint in Political Blogs
In 2005, political commentator Susan Estrich rebuked Michael Kinsley, then-editor of the Los Angeles Times, for excluding women from the newspaper's editorial pages. She argued that Kinsley neither
Entangling Alliances
Journal Article Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century Get access Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century. By Susan Zeiger. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xii, 299 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9717-4.) Barbara G. Friedman Barbara G. Friedman University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: …
Framing the Problem of Sex Trafficking
News media play an important role in explaining the issue of sex trafficking and may influence discourse among the public and policymakers. Understanding the ways that mass media address sex trafficking has implications for the news industry and the global status of women. This study, a quantitative content analysis, analyzed news coverage of sex trafficking in major US newspapers to understand how the issue was framed during a year of coverage. …
The Arab Gulf States
This essay discusses two recent books about the Arab Gulf states that focus on regional security and domestic political change, respectively. The books are evaluated in light of the 2011 Arab uprisings, with an eye toward raising several new questions for future research: Regarding the Gulf's regional security, have the 2011 uprisings changed attitudes among the Arab Gulf states' ruling elites concerning the possibility of moving away from separa…
Veiled Threats
In October 2010, France approved a law banning the Islamic veil in all public areas, asserting the republican principle of laicité. This cross-cultural analysis applies Muhlmann's theoretical framework to French and US news coverage from March 2004 to October 2010 in order to discern whether coverage featured unifying frames invoking shared values; or decentering frames challenging consensual views and presenting alternative contexts
Putin's Russia in the Middle East
Nizameddin traces the continuity and change in Russia's evolving Middle East policies from the final days of the Soviet Union through the emergence of Vladimir Putin in 1998 and his return to the presidency, for a non-consecutive third term, in 2012. Russia's behavior in the Middle East is reminiscent of Soviet behavior during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. As Nizameddin's recent book shows, Russia is not only pursuing its interests in the Middle E…
Framing an Emerging Issue
Sex trafficking has increasingly become a topic on the public and political agenda. This study revealed that coverage of sex trafficking in U.S. print and broadcast media from 2008–2012 was largely episodic, focused on crime and policy frames, privileged official sources, and neglected survivors’ voices. However, findings suggest a shift toward thematic framing as the issue became more widely understood by the public and policymakers
From union (ʾ īttihād ) to united ( muttahida )
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the result of more than three years of failed negotiations to unify the nine pre-state shaykhdoms. Thus, the formation of the UAE may be viewed as a success born of failure. In the period following the 1968 British announcement, the political events that led to the formation of the modern state of the UAE were largely a product of the competition for power or protection between the rulers of the nine pre-state s…
Historiography in Saudi Arabia
Jörg Matthias Determann's Historiography in Saudi Arabia explains the telling and retelling of Saudi history by Saudi scholars, characterizing modern Saudi historiography as a plurality of historical narratives. Determann's central argument is that Saudi scholars in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have produced a broad range of modern Saudi history. These works include dynastic histories and social and economic histories, as well a…
Weaponizing Sectarianism in Iraq and Syria
Iran's Hezbollah Model in Iraq and Syria
Clausewitzian Alchemy and the Modern Character of War
Sex Trafficking as a News Story
This quantitative content analysis uses sex trafficking as a case study to understand how news reporting techniques evolve as a social problem emerges on the public agenda. Results indicate that as news organizations became more experienced in covering trafficking and the public made more aware of trafficking as a social issue, journalists moved from routines that favored official perspectives and frames that concentrated on individuals, to the s…
Nationalism and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This essay examines three new books about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) by focusing on the role of Saudi nationalism in the Kingdom. This essay seeks to frame the discussion of nationalism in historical terms, identifying how it represents a new formula for political legitimacy in the Kingdom. Nationalism is being used by the monarchy to reconstruct and mobilize the Saudi nation. The Saudi state would like to see Saudi youth and Sa…
Adolescents’ Victim-Blaming Responses to Narratives About Sex Trafficking
In the United States, sex-trafficking awareness and prevention has increasingly become part of government-mandated health education. This exploratory study surveyed 250 U.S. adolescents to learn more about the use of media narratives in curricula about sex trafficking in light of research findings about victim-blaming responses to survivor narratives, as well as adolescents' still-developing emotion-regulation skills. Victim blaming is counterpro…
Dragon unbound? Regional influences on China's policies in the Middle East—Introduction
China has manifested its aspiration to create an interdependent global network that integrates its commercial, strategic, political, and cultural connections across the world. Eurasia, and the Middle East and North Africa within it, have certainly become a core part of China's global design. This volume aims to explain the process of Chinese expansion in the Middle East from an ‘inside‐out’ perspective. It includes a series of country‐specific ca…
Sino–American relations and the ‘new cold war’
This article examines the value of the ‘Cold War’ analogy – which has become a commonly used shorthand to describe the Sino–American rivalry – for understanding the effects of the current great power competition in the Middle East. Instead of thinking in terms of the zero‐sum logic of the Cold War, we are using the Cold War history in the Middle East as a heuristic device to sharpen our understanding of today's dilemmas. In other words, we are ar…
Saudi Arabia’s Reluctant Regionalism
Judged, Misrepresented and Misunderstood”
China and the Arab Gulf States, post-Covid
Over the past three years China's security and diplomatic engagement in the Middle East has been improvisational and opportunistic, seeking to exploit the US engagement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Gaza and serving the Chinese aim of using political and diplomatic support in the Middle East to counter what it sees as a US effort to encircle and contain China's power and influence. Yet China is not seeking to replace the US as …
Political science (20 works) · Law (14 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)