Eytan Gilboa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eytan Gilboa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eytan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilboa |
| SIGNATURE | GILBOA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5500-6894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 425 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy
US-Israel relations at 75
This article examines American Israeli relations since the establishment of the state in 1948 to the present. It presents a combination of historical and theoretical analysis. It uses the concept of ‘special relationship’ to analyse major issues in the evolution of bilateral relations including US support for Israel’s independence, Arab-Israeli wars, Palestinian terrorism, mediation, peace agreements, foreign aid, public opinion, attitudes of Ame…
The False Readiness Theory: Explaining Failures to Negotiate Israeli-Palestinian Peace
This article applies a new conflict resolution theory – False Readiness ( FR ) – to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a theory-based explanation of the numerous failures to resolve it. The FR theory was designed to facilitate research on protracted conflicts where the parties agree to open negotiations, conduct rounds for decades, but fail to reach peace agreements. It suggests that when at least one of the disputants does not seek reso…
False Readiness: Expanding the Concept of Readiness in Conflict Resolution Theory
This study introduces a new theoretical concept, “false readiness” (FR), to fill a lacuna in theories of conflict resolution (CR). Existing theories focus mostly on successful cases and opening phases and suggest conditions and variables to determine whether a conflict is “ripe” or “ready” for resolution. The prevailing assumption is that if disputants decide to enter negotiations, they must have “crossed the Rubicon” and wish to reach agreement.…
The Palestinian campaign against Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council
This article scrutinises the Palestinian ‘smart power’ strategy of demonising Israel and diminishing its ability to defend itself against violence. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) offered the best vehicles to execute this strategy. The article critically examines three Committees of Inquiry (COI) the UNHRC established to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes during confrontations with Ha…
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
Communicating From Within the Shadows: The Israel Security Agency and the Media
Communicating with the media is an ongoing complicated task intelligence services tackle from the day they are established. The relationship is inherently tense because one side wishes to reveal wh
US-Israeli Relations in a New Era: Issues and Challenges After 9/11
I. Introduction II. The Strategic Landscape 1. US Management of Middle East War and Peace: Between Defensive Realism and Offensive Liberalism Benny Miller 2. US-Israel Relations in the post-Cold War Era: The View from Jerusalem Efraim Inbar III. Domestic Sources 3. The Public Dimension of US-Israel Relations: A Comparative Analysis Eytan Gilboa 4. AIPAC and US Middle East Policy Mitchell Bard 5. American Jewish Demography: Implications for US-Isr…
Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy
This work presents and critically evaluates attempts to theorize and conceptualize public diplomacy within several disciplines, including international relations, strategic studies, diplomatic studies, public relations, and communication. It also examines research methods used to investigate public diplomacy, including models, paradigms, case studies, and comparative analysis. The work identifies promising directions as well as weaknesses and gap…
The Public Diplomacy of Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is one of the most important news organizations in the world today. This chapter suggests that the Arab network also functions as a significant political actor in the international sphere with a clear agenda and means to accomplish it. Moreover, the study further argues that Al Jazeera has adopted two discreet roles: internal and external. The internal is exemplified by the network's initiation of discussion on controversial and taboo …
Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy
Media-Broker Diplomacy: When Journalists Become Mediators
This analysis of the involvement of journalists in international conflict resolution presents a conceptual model that applies theories and models from both negotiation and communication. Each variant of the model—direct intervention, bridging, and secret mediation—has contributed to conflict resolution in a different way. The model also includes three parameters: action, initiation, and consequences. Findings from eight case studies raise difficu…
Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect
This study investigates the origins and development of the cable news network (CNN) effect hypothesis. It reveals an ongoing debate among politicians, officials, and journalists who are involved in the political processes that this hypothesis attempts to explain, and also among scholars who have been studying it. Debates have been conducted both within and among these groups on the meaning and validity of the CNN effect, but none has contributed …
The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations
This study investigates the decade long effort to construct and validate a communications theory of international relations that asserts that global television networks, such as CNN and BBC World, have become a decisive actor in determining policies and outcomes of significant events. It systematically and critically analyzes major works published on this theory, known also as the CNN effect, both in professional and academic outlets. These publi…
The Media Campaign in the 2003 Israeli Elections
Television News and U.S. Foreign Policy: Constraints of Real-Time Coverage
This study argues that the main approaches used to investigate the impact of television news on U.S. foreign policy making including the “CNN effect” and “news management” have missed several significant effects. This work employs an approach that views the media impact in terms of constraints real-time television coverage imposes on the policy-making process. These include shortening of the time available for policy making and demanding immediat…
Media and Conflict: Framing Issues, Making Policy, Shaping Opinions
This is the first book to focus on media and conflict - primarily international conflict - from multidisciplinary, cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. Twenty-two contributors from around the globe present original and thought provoking research on media and conflict in the United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Media and Conflict includes works both on the traditional print and electronic me…
Global Communication and Foreign Policy
This study investigated the effects global communication is having on the formulation and conduct of foreign policy and showed that it both constrains leaders and officials yet provides them with opportunities to advance their goals. The article presents a taxonomy where global communication is viewed as an actor in the policy process with corresponding attributes of type, activity, context, and concept. Four types of actors are identified: contr…
Diplomacy in the media age: Three models of uses and effects
This study offers three conceptual models to promote systematic research into uses of the media as a major instrument of foreign policy and international negotiations: public diplomacy, where state and nonstate actors use the media and other channels of communication to influence public opinion in foreign societies; media diplomacy, where officials use the media to communicate with actors and to promote conflict resolution; and media‐broker diplo…
Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework
Journal Article Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa 1Eytan Gilboa is a professor of communication and government and the chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel. He also teaches international communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author and editor of several books, and his articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, includ…
The Media campaign: The shift to alternative media
Media Diplomacy: Conceptual Divergence and Applications
This article contends that the use of media diplomacy as a theoretical concept has been highly confusing and misleading. It substantially revises and restricts the concept to one particular and distinctive relationship between the media and diplomacy. The article expands and adds two more conceptual models, public diplomacy and media-broker diplomacy, to investigate the other relationships. Each model exists only when certain characteristics or c…
Secret Diplomacy in the Television Age
The article offers three conceptual models to explore various interactions between media and diplomacy within various secret settings. In the secret diplomacy model, the media and the public are totally excluded from negotiations, while in closed-door diplomacy they are partially excluded. In secret media-broker diplomacy, a journalist assumes the role of a diplomat and is secretly engaged in mediation. The models help to investigate fundamental …
The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era
Journal Article The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa EYTAN GILBOA teaches international politics at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous articles and books including American Public Opinion Toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is currently writing a book on American use of force sin…
The intifada: Two assessments
Zeev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising ‐ Israel's Third Front. Edited and translated by Ina Friedman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Pp.352. $22.95. ISBN 0–67530–3
Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy
This work presents and critically evaluates attempts to theorize and conceptualize public diplomacy within several disciplines, including international relations, strategic studies, diplomatic studies, public relations, and communication. It also examines research methods used to investigate public diplomacy, including models, paradigms, case studies, and comparative analysis. The work identifies promising directions as well as weaknesses and gap…
The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations
This study investigates the decade long effort to construct and validate a communications theory of international relations that asserts that global television networks, such as CNN and BBC World, have become a decisive actor in determining policies and outcomes of significant events. It systematically and critically analyzes major works published on this theory, known also as the CNN effect, both in professional and academic outlets. These publi…
Diplomacy in the media age: Three models of uses and effects
This study offers three conceptual models to promote systematic research into uses of the media as a major instrument of foreign policy and international negotiations: public diplomacy, where state and nonstate actors use the media and other channels of communication to influence public opinion in foreign societies; media diplomacy, where officials use the media to communicate with actors and to promote conflict resolution; and media‐broker diplo…
Global Communication and Foreign Policy
This study investigated the effects global communication is having on the formulation and conduct of foreign policy and showed that it both constrains leaders and officials yet provides them with opportunities to advance their goals. The article presents a taxonomy where global communication is viewed as an actor in the policy process with corresponding attributes of type, activity, context, and concept. Four types of actors are identified: contr…
Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect
This study investigates the origins and development of the cable news network (CNN) effect hypothesis. It reveals an ongoing debate among politicians, officials, and journalists who are involved in the political processes that this hypothesis attempts to explain, and also among scholars who have been studying it. Debates have been conducted both within and among these groups on the meaning and validity of the CNN effect, but none has contributed …
Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy
Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework
Journal Article Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa 1Eytan Gilboa is a professor of communication and government and the chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel. He also teaches international communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author and editor of several books, and his articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, includ…
Media Diplomacy: Conceptual Divergence and Applications
This article contends that the use of media diplomacy as a theoretical concept has been highly confusing and misleading. It substantially revises and restricts the concept to one particular and distinctive relationship between the media and diplomacy. The article expands and adds two more conceptual models, public diplomacy and media-broker diplomacy, to investigate the other relationships. Each model exists only when certain characteristics or c…
Media-Broker Diplomacy: When Journalists Become Mediators
This analysis of the involvement of journalists in international conflict resolution presents a conceptual model that applies theories and models from both negotiation and communication. Each variant of the model—direct intervention, bridging, and secret mediation—has contributed to conflict resolution in a different way. The model also includes three parameters: action, initiation, and consequences. Findings from eight case studies raise difficu…
Television News and U.S. Foreign Policy: Constraints of Real-Time Coverage
This study argues that the main approaches used to investigate the impact of television news on U.S. foreign policy making including the “CNN effect” and “news management” have missed several significant effects. This work employs an approach that views the media impact in terms of constraints real-time television coverage imposes on the policy-making process. These include shortening of the time available for policy making and demanding immediat…
American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Secret Diplomacy in the Television Age
The article offers three conceptual models to explore various interactions between media and diplomacy within various secret settings. In the secret diplomacy model, the media and the public are totally excluded from negotiations, while in closed-door diplomacy they are partially excluded. In secret media-broker diplomacy, a journalist assumes the role of a diplomat and is secretly engaged in mediation. The models help to investigate fundamental …
The Media campaign: The shift to alternative media
The Palestinian campaign against Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council
This article scrutinises the Palestinian ‘smart power’ strategy of demonising Israel and diminishing its ability to defend itself against violence. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) offered the best vehicles to execute this strategy. The article critically examines three Committees of Inquiry (COI) the UNHRC established to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes during confrontations with Ha…
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era
Journal Article The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa EYTAN GILBOA teaches international politics at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous articles and books including American Public Opinion Toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is currently writing a book on American use of force sin…
American media messages and public opinion on the Palestinian uprising
The Palestinian uprising has precipitated widespread debate about American media representation and influence of public opinion. This study was undertaken to determine whether American media coverage of the violence corresponded with American public attitudes. American media messages and public opinion were compared on four central topics: the significance of the uprising in relation to other international issues, judgment of the parties’ handlin…
Educating Israeli Officers in the Processes of Peacemaking in the Middle East Conflict
This article suggests that the military in modern democratic societies which are involved in international conflicts must be educated not only in the use of force, but also in peacemaking and conflict resolution. The article presents an effort to educate Israeli military officers in the process of peacemaking in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This effort was based on the use of a new simulation and civilian resources. The basic characteristics of thi…
The False Readiness Theory: Explaining Failures to Negotiate Israeli-Palestinian Peace
This article applies a new conflict resolution theory – False Readiness ( FR ) – to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a theory-based explanation of the numerous failures to resolve it. The FR theory was designed to facilitate research on protracted conflicts where the parties agree to open negotiations, conduct rounds for decades, but fail to reach peace agreements. It suggests that when at least one of the disputants does not seek reso…
False Readiness: Expanding the Concept of Readiness in Conflict Resolution Theory
This study introduces a new theoretical concept, “false readiness” (FR), to fill a lacuna in theories of conflict resolution (CR). Existing theories focus mostly on successful cases and opening phases and suggest conditions and variables to determine whether a conflict is “ripe” or “ready” for resolution. The prevailing assumption is that if disputants decide to enter negotiations, they must have “crossed the Rubicon” and wish to reach agreement.…
The Media Campaign in the 2003 Israeli Elections
Trends in American attitudes toward the PLO and the palestinians
This article presents a critical analysis of public opinion polls on the PLO and the Palestinians having been conducted in the United States since the middle 1970s. The analysis deals with four issues: the image of the PLO and the Palestinians; the role of the PLO in the political process; possible solutions to the Palestinian problem; and the effects of the 1982 Israeli War in Lebanon on all these issues. The opinion data are explored within the…
Educating Israeli Officers in the Processes of Peacemaking in the Middle East Conflict
This article suggests that the military in modern democratic societies which are involved in international conflicts must be educated not only in the use of force, but also in peacemaking and conflict resolution. The article presents an effort to educate Israeli military officers in the process of peacemaking in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This effort was based on the use of a new simulation and civilian resources. The basic characteristics of thi…
The use of simulation in combatting terrorism
Combatting the continuing and growing threats of domestic and international terrorism requires new and bold efforts on the part of the industrial democracies. This article suggests that the simulation technique becomes one central element in these efforts. The article briefly presents the technique and shows how it has been used so far, and how it can be used in four different areas of combatting terrorism: training, research, planning, and educa…
Trends in American attitudes toward the PLO and the palestinians
This article presents a critical analysis of public opinion polls on the PLO and the Palestinians having been conducted in the United States since the middle 1970s. The analysis deals with four issues: the image of the PLO and the Palestinians; the role of the PLO in the political process; possible solutions to the Palestinian problem; and the effects of the 1982 Israeli War in Lebanon on all these issues. The opinion data are explored within the…
American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
American media messages and public opinion on the Palestinian uprising
The Palestinian uprising has precipitated widespread debate about American media representation and influence of public opinion. This study was undertaken to determine whether American media coverage of the violence corresponded with American public attitudes. American media messages and public opinion were compared on four central topics: the significance of the uprising in relation to other international issues, judgment of the parties’ handlin…
The intifada: Two assessments
Zeev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising ‐ Israel's Third Front. Edited and translated by Ina Friedman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Pp.352. $22.95. ISBN 0–67530–3
The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era
Journal Article The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa EYTAN GILBOA teaches international politics at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous articles and books including American Public Opinion Toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is currently writing a book on American use of force sin…
Media Diplomacy: Conceptual Divergence and Applications
This article contends that the use of media diplomacy as a theoretical concept has been highly confusing and misleading. It substantially revises and restricts the concept to one particular and distinctive relationship between the media and diplomacy. The article expands and adds two more conceptual models, public diplomacy and media-broker diplomacy, to investigate the other relationships. Each model exists only when certain characteristics or c…
Secret Diplomacy in the Television Age
The article offers three conceptual models to explore various interactions between media and diplomacy within various secret settings. In the secret diplomacy model, the media and the public are totally excluded from negotiations, while in closed-door diplomacy they are partially excluded. In secret media-broker diplomacy, a journalist assumes the role of a diplomat and is secretly engaged in mediation. The models help to investigate fundamental …
Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework
Journal Article Mass Communication and Diplomacy: A Theoretical Framework Get access Eytan Gilboa Eytan Gilboa 1Eytan Gilboa is a professor of communication and government and the chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel. He also teaches international communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author and editor of several books, and his articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, includ…
The Media campaign: The shift to alternative media
Diplomacy in the media age: Three models of uses and effects
This study offers three conceptual models to promote systematic research into uses of the media as a major instrument of foreign policy and international negotiations: public diplomacy, where state and nonstate actors use the media and other channels of communication to influence public opinion in foreign societies; media diplomacy, where officials use the media to communicate with actors and to promote conflict resolution; and media‐broker diplo…
Media and Conflict: Framing Issues, Making Policy, Shaping Opinions
This is the first book to focus on media and conflict - primarily international conflict - from multidisciplinary, cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. Twenty-two contributors from around the globe present original and thought provoking research on media and conflict in the United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Media and Conflict includes works both on the traditional print and electronic me…
Global Communication and Foreign Policy
This study investigated the effects global communication is having on the formulation and conduct of foreign policy and showed that it both constrains leaders and officials yet provides them with opportunities to advance their goals. The article presents a taxonomy where global communication is viewed as an actor in the policy process with corresponding attributes of type, activity, context, and concept. Four types of actors are identified: contr…
Television News and U.S. Foreign Policy: Constraints of Real-Time Coverage
This study argues that the main approaches used to investigate the impact of television news on U.S. foreign policy making including the “CNN effect” and “news management” have missed several significant effects. This work employs an approach that views the media impact in terms of constraints real-time television coverage imposes on the policy-making process. These include shortening of the time available for policy making and demanding immediat…
The Media Campaign in the 2003 Israeli Elections
Media-Broker Diplomacy: When Journalists Become Mediators
This analysis of the involvement of journalists in international conflict resolution presents a conceptual model that applies theories and models from both negotiation and communication. Each variant of the model—direct intervention, bridging, and secret mediation—has contributed to conflict resolution in a different way. The model also includes three parameters: action, initiation, and consequences. Findings from eight case studies raise difficu…
Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect
This study investigates the origins and development of the cable news network (CNN) effect hypothesis. It reveals an ongoing debate among politicians, officials, and journalists who are involved in the political processes that this hypothesis attempts to explain, and also among scholars who have been studying it. Debates have been conducted both within and among these groups on the meaning and validity of the CNN effect, but none has contributed …
The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations
This study investigates the decade long effort to construct and validate a communications theory of international relations that asserts that global television networks, such as CNN and BBC World, have become a decisive actor in determining policies and outcomes of significant events. It systematically and critically analyzes major works published on this theory, known also as the CNN effect, both in professional and academic outlets. These publi…
Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy
The Public Diplomacy of Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is one of the most important news organizations in the world today. This chapter suggests that the Arab network also functions as a significant political actor in the international sphere with a clear agenda and means to accomplish it. Moreover, the study further argues that Al Jazeera has adopted two discreet roles: internal and external. The internal is exemplified by the network's initiation of discussion on controversial and taboo …
US-Israeli Relations in a New Era: Issues and Challenges After 9/11
I. Introduction II. The Strategic Landscape 1. US Management of Middle East War and Peace: Between Defensive Realism and Offensive Liberalism Benny Miller 2. US-Israel Relations in the post-Cold War Era: The View from Jerusalem Efraim Inbar III. Domestic Sources 3. The Public Dimension of US-Israel Relations: A Comparative Analysis Eytan Gilboa 4. AIPAC and US Middle East Policy Mitchell Bard 5. American Jewish Demography: Implications for US-Isr…
Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy
This work presents and critically evaluates attempts to theorize and conceptualize public diplomacy within several disciplines, including international relations, strategic studies, diplomatic studies, public relations, and communication. It also examines research methods used to investigate public diplomacy, including models, paradigms, case studies, and comparative analysis. The work identifies promising directions as well as weaknesses and gap…
Communicating From Within the Shadows: The Israel Security Agency and the Media
Communicating with the media is an ongoing complicated task intelligence services tackle from the day they are established. The relationship is inherently tense because one side wishes to reveal wh
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better understand the multifaceted contemporary environments of both media and conflict. There are growing numbers and types of media sources, and multiple interactions…
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