Chen Kertcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 316741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chen Kertcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kertcher |
| SIGNATURE | KERTCHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ariel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6524-8478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards an efficacy model of Peace Journalism: Engaged audience responses to Sport media in Israeli divided society from 2023 to 2024
This study proposes and applies an analytical framework of peace journalism (PJ) versus war journalism (WJ) in Israeli sport media during the 2023–2024 judicial reforms crisis and Israel-Hamas war. The framework operationalizes discursive impact through audience engagement (comment volume) and dominant sentiment (positive/cohesive, neutral/negotiated, negative/divisive), yielding eight outcomes from cohesion-enhancing to division-amplifying. Anal…
Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan
Crafting and maintaining peace agreements is one of the most critical challenges in international relations and conflict resolution. Despite their initial promise, many such deals have failed, sparking renewed conflict and instability. This article argues that two primary factors influence the durability of these agreements: elite positions and interests reinforced by strong domestic institutions, and mediator involvement and guarantees. Through …
Uncharted growth: Determinants of expansion in informal intergovernmental organisations – the case of BRICS and India
The recent decision by BRICS member states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to expand the bloc marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIOs), incorporating Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While extensive research has examined enlargement in formal international organisations (IOs), little is known about the determinants of expansion in IIOs. This art…
Mediator Narration of Memory: US Presidents’ Autobiographies and the Narration of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993–2012
The main argument of the paper is that we should examine mediator-narrative as an agency in narrative construction of memory during conflict. It demonstrates how despite the differences between the US presidents' personal world views, their strategic narrations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are strikingly similar. These selective narratives strengthen the image of the US as a peacemaker and benevolent global leader. This narration is achiev…
Minority Perspective: The Israeli–Arab Leadership Position Over the Israeli Peace Agreements With Arab States
Research on conflict resolution typically examines how local leadership shapes social and political responses. However, there is limited exploration of ethnic minority leadership and their attitudes toward agreements with adversarial states. A notable example is Israel, which has established five peace or normalization accords: with Egypt in 1977, Jordan in 1994, and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco in 2020. While these agreements have been analyzed…
The meaning of sentiment analysis of UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine war: A comparative study using Vader and Bert NLP techniques
The use of natural language processing (NLP) to analyze political speeches provides valuable insights into global politics. Political discourse shapes public opinion and international relations, particularly in forums like the United Nations (UN). Sentiment analysis, a key NLP technique, helps uncover the emotional and strategic aspects of such speeches. This study evaluates the sentiment in UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine conflict using two ad…
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel
This study examines how Hebrew-language sports media framed Jewish and Arab football clubs in Israel during the 2023–2024 football season, amid the ongoing Israel–Hamas war. Focusing on the ultra-nationalist Jewish club Beitar Jerusalem, the established Arab club Bnei Sakhnin, and the emerging Arab club Bnei Reineh, the analysis reveals distinct patterns shaped by framing theory (Entman, 1993) and peace journalism (Galtung, 2002). Despite compara…
Unifil and the ‘Security Zone’ in South Lebanon, 1985–2000: Traditional operations in the Post-Cold War Era
Frenemies to Enemies: How Institutionalizing Global Security Contributed to the Political-Ideological Rift That Evolved Into the Cold War
Studies on the Cold War often emphasize its inevitability due to the ideological rift between the United States and the Soviet Union, particularly after 1948. This study analyses primary documents to explore the concept of â frenemiesâ in the United Nations, focusing on two key issues: international military and global disarmament. Findings reveal the existence of three political-ideological camps by early 1946. The first, led by the United State…
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars
This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security. We support this theory through two methodological steps. First, we define a boundary for a subregional sphere focusing on a conflict, and, using …
Disruptive Media Event in a Divided Society: The Case of October 7 Atrocity Videos in Israel
The use of social media by terrorists for live broadcasts can orchestrate a disruptive media event. The conceptualization of viewing as a ritual reveals its social functions. This study examines the emotional reception of the Jewish majority and Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel to the documented Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Data were collected via a questionnaire distributed to 432 participants aged 20 to 28. Despite social differences, bo…
Unpacking Unofficial Normalization: Israel's Unofficial Relations with the UAE and the Abraham Accords
The study aims to unpack the concept of unofficial normalization and how it can facilitate the resolution of interstate conflicts. Drawing on Kriesberg's typology of conflict management strategies as constructive or destructive, we define constructive unofficial normalization as a new type of coengagement reward inducement in the context of United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Israel relations. Disciplined configurative and heuristic modes of case study an…
The Hyper-Truth War: The Role of Atrocities from a Postdigital Perspective
Photographs of killing fields, corpses, and war horrors have been circulating in the media since the Crimean War and the American Civil War. These testimonies of violence carry a high news value; they convey unifying messages to the nation and threatening messages to the enemy. These integrating and alienating media roles are amplified in a postdigital society where digital technology is woven into all aspects of social life (Jandrić 2022 ; Hoski…
Silent alliances and shifting tides: Unveiling the hidden pathways to resolving interstate rivalries – the UAE-Israel case
Purpose This study delves into the transformation of UAE-Israel relations, which transitioned from a long-term rivalry to a formal peace agreement in 2020. It aims to uncover the multifaceted elements that influenced both nations’ pursuit of bilateral negotiations, with a special emphasis on the role of unofficial collaboration. Design/methodology/approach Employing a case study approach, the research traces the evolution of the UAE-Israel ties, …
Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel: A realist alliance and a neoliberal knowledge-based economy cooperation, 2011–2022
This paper argues that Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel explains the strengthening of ties between the two states from 2011 to 2022. Most writings usually focus on realist explanations for this process, such as the anti-Iran alliance since the beginning of the 2000s. However, this paper argues that this is a necessary but insufficient explanation and suggests that in 2011, Azerbaijan decided to move to a knowledge-based eco…
A thin debate: Comparing the conflicting political narratives of the UN security council and general assembly on the Gaza Strip from 2006 to 2018
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–2023
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021
Since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, Israel's reactions have been met with criticism from a key friend: Russia. However, Moscow's public condemnation of the humanitarian crisis has not changed its material or normative policies toward Israel in other respects. This article analyzes Russia‐Israel relations, especially concerning the Syrian conflict between 2015 and 2021. It demonstrates how the two states developed norms and structural prac…
A diversionary benevolent media strategy: Lobbying Saudi Arabia's humanitarian aid in Arabic and English
Humanitarian aid is often accompanied by broad media coverage. In academic research, there is a dominant bias toward Western studies on the topic. Following studies that emphasize the negative role of autocratic regimes using their media to frame threats as an intra-state diversionary strategy, this study contributes to our understating of how autocratic regimes use the media and illuminates how they employ a diversionary benevolent strategy in t…
The Global South contestation narratives and the transformation of military humanitarian interventions in the early 1990s
This paper’s main contribution is to the agency of the South in support of the transformation of MHIs in the early 1990s. This is in contradiction to current literature on how the norm emerged after the Cold War. The study shows that strategic narratives used in hundreds of deliberations in the UNSC were used by the South as part of a social interaction that encouraged the transformation of humanitarian norms. This approach reveals that the South…
The road to normalization: The importance of the United Arab Emirates' neoliberal foreign policy in the normalization with Israel: 2004-2020
The article discusses the question of why and how the normalization between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel took place and managed to evolve into a peace agreement. It offers an additional explanation to the neorealists' scholarly and commonly accepted argument: that it was only the behavior of the revisionist state of Iran that was the motive for signing the peace agreement between the two states. Furthermore, the article argues that t…
The UN's Reports on Gender Stereotypes in Muslim Countries-Differentiation of Economic Development
This paper explores the differences in the content of commentary reports that the United Nations (UN) addressed to Islamic countries in the Stereotypes section. A significant association was found between types of violations and the level of the state's economic development. For high-income level countries, the commentaries addressed social perceptions violations. For low-level income countries, the commentaries focused on physical practices viol…
Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries
The majority of writing on global human rights diffusion focuses on the state level and state’s rejection or assimilation of such norms. This paper turns the focus to the international level and to the norm gatekeeper, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW. The study examines how CEDAW translates the mission of eradication of negative stereotypes. The analysis is based on close reading of UN policy documents d…
The dispositive of terrorism during the war on terrorism: The UNSC’s approach to concrete terror emergencies in the Middle East
This study adopts a constructivist approach to reveal the function of the dispositive of terrorism in the UN Security Council. While some CTS studies focus on genealogies of terrorism at the UN based on a general “global terrorism” discourse, this study focuses on concrete emergencies. The methodology compares 652 states’ deliberations and resolutions during a surge in violence between 2006 and 2009 in four cases: Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel-Palest…
Explaining a State Status Quo and Non-State Revisionist Dynamic: The Case of the Conflict Between Hamas and Israel 2007–2019
Using contemporary theories on Status Quo and Revisionist actors, the study provides an alternative explanation to the Israeli−Hamas conflict. Israel is a status quo actor that enjoys high values in terms of economic and military power. It has low value in terms of brokerage in international institutions. Hamas is a radical revisionist actor that follows other radical revisionist Islamic actors. However, it fails on both axes to change its equati…
The road to normalization: The importance of the United Arab Emirates' neoliberal foreign policy in the normalization with Israel: 2004-2020
The article discusses the question of why and how the normalization between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel took place and managed to evolve into a peace agreement. It offers an additional explanation to the neorealists' scholarly and commonly accepted argument: that it was only the behavior of the revisionist state of Iran that was the motive for signing the peace agreement between the two states. Furthermore, the article argues that t…
Unpacking Unofficial Normalization: Israel's Unofficial Relations with the UAE and the Abraham Accords
The study aims to unpack the concept of unofficial normalization and how it can facilitate the resolution of interstate conflicts. Drawing on Kriesberg's typology of conflict management strategies as constructive or destructive, we define constructive unofficial normalization as a new type of coengagement reward inducement in the context of United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Israel relations. Disciplined configurative and heuristic modes of case study an…
A thin debate: Comparing the conflicting political narratives of the UN security council and general assembly on the Gaza Strip from 2006 to 2018
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–2023
The dispositive of terrorism during the war on terrorism: The UNSC’s approach to concrete terror emergencies in the Middle East
This study adopts a constructivist approach to reveal the function of the dispositive of terrorism in the UN Security Council. While some CTS studies focus on genealogies of terrorism at the UN based on a general “global terrorism” discourse, this study focuses on concrete emergencies. The methodology compares 652 states’ deliberations and resolutions during a surge in violence between 2006 and 2009 in four cases: Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel-Palest…
Explaining a State Status Quo and Non-State Revisionist Dynamic: The Case of the Conflict Between Hamas and Israel 2007–2019
Using contemporary theories on Status Quo and Revisionist actors, the study provides an alternative explanation to the Israeli−Hamas conflict. Israel is a status quo actor that enjoys high values in terms of economic and military power. It has low value in terms of brokerage in international institutions. Hamas is a radical revisionist actor that follows other radical revisionist Islamic actors. However, it fails on both axes to change its equati…
Conditioned integration during security crises: The role of Israeli sports media from 1996 to 2014
This study examines peace journalism as manifested toward the Israeli Arab minority in a time of seven security crises from 1996 to 2014 in the Israeli Hebrew sports media. Studies of peace journalism in periods of crises focus mainly on political news and find that the media largely conform to alienation practices. This study argues that sports media encourage a ‘conditional integration’ of all actors that participate in the sport. The sports me…
Disruptive Media Event in a Divided Society: The Case of October 7 Atrocity Videos in Israel
The use of social media by terrorists for live broadcasts can orchestrate a disruptive media event. The conceptualization of viewing as a ritual reveals its social functions. This study examines the emotional reception of the Jewish majority and Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel to the documented Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Data were collected via a questionnaire distributed to 432 participants aged 20 to 28. Despite social differences, bo…
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021
Since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, Israel's reactions have been met with criticism from a key friend: Russia. However, Moscow's public condemnation of the humanitarian crisis has not changed its material or normative policies toward Israel in other respects. This article analyzes Russia‐Israel relations, especially concerning the Syrian conflict between 2015 and 2021. It demonstrates how the two states developed norms and structural prac…
Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries
The majority of writing on global human rights diffusion focuses on the state level and state’s rejection or assimilation of such norms. This paper turns the focus to the international level and to the norm gatekeeper, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW. The study examines how CEDAW translates the mission of eradication of negative stereotypes. The analysis is based on close reading of UN policy documents d…
The meaning of sentiment analysis of UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine war: A comparative study using Vader and Bert NLP techniques
The use of natural language processing (NLP) to analyze political speeches provides valuable insights into global politics. Political discourse shapes public opinion and international relations, particularly in forums like the United Nations (UN). Sentiment analysis, a key NLP technique, helps uncover the emotional and strategic aspects of such speeches. This study evaluates the sentiment in UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine conflict using two ad…
A diversionary benevolent media strategy: Lobbying Saudi Arabia's humanitarian aid in Arabic and English
Humanitarian aid is often accompanied by broad media coverage. In academic research, there is a dominant bias toward Western studies on the topic. Following studies that emphasize the negative role of autocratic regimes using their media to frame threats as an intra-state diversionary strategy, this study contributes to our understating of how autocratic regimes use the media and illuminates how they employ a diversionary benevolent strategy in t…
An Ouroboros health strategy: How Israelis adopted health as a post-heroic strategy in their conflict with the Palestinians
This article claims that since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord the Israelis have adopted a post-heroic health strategy towards the Palestinians that can be termed an 'Ouroboros' strategy. This strategy encourages all relevant actors to be engaged and invest in its execution without obtaining a substantial constant improvement in the political, security and health sectors that justify its implementation. This strategy was not planned by the Is…
Peace building? The coverage of Arab football players in the Hebrew sports media during the October 2000 riots
This paper is a preliminary report of a wider examination of media coverage of Arab football players in the Israeli Hebrew language media during the past 15 years. It aims to examine the extent to which this media serves as a peace-building measure that aims to reduce the incentives for conflict between Jewish and Arab communities in Israel. The current paper examines how the major Hebrew newspapers and Internet sites depicted Palestinian Arab fo…
From Cold War to a System of Peacekeeping Operations: The Discussions on Peacekeeping Operations in the UN During the 1980s up to 1992
This paper examines the discussions on peacekeeping in the United Nations during the 1980s and up to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It demonstrates that the call for wider implementation of UN peacekeeping operations and for the broadening of their functions began in the final stages of the Cold War. This was not a result of a shift in the policies of the Western powers or the work of the UN Secretariat; rather, the major source of chang…
Peace building? The coverage of Arab football players in the Hebrew sports media during the October 2000 riots
This paper is a preliminary report of a wider examination of media coverage of Arab football players in the Israeli Hebrew language media during the past 15 years. It aims to examine the extent to which this media serves as a peace-building measure that aims to reduce the incentives for conflict between Jewish and Arab communities in Israel. The current paper examines how the major Hebrew newspapers and Internet sites depicted Palestinian Arab fo…
From Cold War to a System of Peacekeeping Operations: The Discussions on Peacekeeping Operations in the UN During the 1980s up to 1992
This paper examines the discussions on peacekeeping in the United Nations during the 1980s and up to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It demonstrates that the call for wider implementation of UN peacekeeping operations and for the broadening of their functions began in the final stages of the Cold War. This was not a result of a shift in the policies of the Western powers or the work of the UN Secretariat; rather, the major source of chang…
Grassroots medical peace building: Training Palestinian physicians in Israel
Based on new scholarship on the importance of health in times of conflict, this paper examines the training of Palestinian physicians in Israel from the 1990s to 2010 as a test case for the theory. It shows that although Israeli governments have adopted a passive policy towards such training, and the Palestinian Authority is officially against such cooperation; in practice, individuals and hospitals on both sides work at the grassroots level with…
The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
This book offers a brief review of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 2014. It examines international politics at the United Nations from 1988 to 1991 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) dissolved. The book offers new explanations for the dwindling support for UN peacekeeping operations from late 1993 to 1995. It examines the diplomatic discussions at the Security Council, the General Assembly and the UN Secr…
The Case for Arab-Israeli Normalization during Conflict
An Ouroboros health strategy: How Israelis adopted health as a post-heroic strategy in their conflict with the Palestinians
This article claims that since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord the Israelis have adopted a post-heroic health strategy towards the Palestinians that can be termed an 'Ouroboros' strategy. This strategy encourages all relevant actors to be engaged and invest in its execution without obtaining a substantial constant improvement in the political, security and health sectors that justify its implementation. This strategy was not planned by the Is…
‘Siege Mentality’ Reaction to the Pandemic: Israeli Memes During Covid-19
The dispositive of terrorism during the war on terrorism: The UNSC’s approach to concrete terror emergencies in the Middle East
This study adopts a constructivist approach to reveal the function of the dispositive of terrorism in the UN Security Council. While some CTS studies focus on genealogies of terrorism at the UN based on a general “global terrorism” discourse, this study focuses on concrete emergencies. The methodology compares 652 states’ deliberations and resolutions during a surge in violence between 2006 and 2009 in four cases: Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel-Palest…
Explaining a State Status Quo and Non-State Revisionist Dynamic: The Case of the Conflict Between Hamas and Israel 2007–2019
Using contemporary theories on Status Quo and Revisionist actors, the study provides an alternative explanation to the Israeli−Hamas conflict. Israel is a status quo actor that enjoys high values in terms of economic and military power. It has low value in terms of brokerage in international institutions. Hamas is a radical revisionist actor that follows other radical revisionist Islamic actors. However, it fails on both axes to change its equati…
How Peace Operations Did Not Emerge as a Norm after the First World War
The execution of international plebiscites and international administrations in post-World War I Germany was chosen as a case study because it is accepted as an early model of peace operations. It held promise for the emergence of a new norm for resolving territorial disputes according to the principle of self-determination. In order to understand why the norm failed in its early emergence stage process, the paper analyzes the discussions on Germ…
Conditioned integration during security crises: The role of Israeli sports media from 1996 to 2014
This study examines peace journalism as manifested toward the Israeli Arab minority in a time of seven security crises from 1996 to 2014 in the Israeli Hebrew sports media. Studies of peace journalism in periods of crises focus mainly on political news and find that the media largely conform to alienation practices. This study argues that sports media encourage a ‘conditional integration’ of all actors that participate in the sport. The sports me…
Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries
The majority of writing on global human rights diffusion focuses on the state level and state’s rejection or assimilation of such norms. This paper turns the focus to the international level and to the norm gatekeeper, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW. The study examines how CEDAW translates the mission of eradication of negative stereotypes. The analysis is based on close reading of UN policy documents d…
The Global South contestation narratives and the transformation of military humanitarian interventions in the early 1990s
This paper’s main contribution is to the agency of the South in support of the transformation of MHIs in the early 1990s. This is in contradiction to current literature on how the norm emerged after the Cold War. The study shows that strategic narratives used in hundreds of deliberations in the UNSC were used by the South as part of a social interaction that encouraged the transformation of humanitarian norms. This approach reveals that the South…
The road to normalization: The importance of the United Arab Emirates' neoliberal foreign policy in the normalization with Israel: 2004-2020
The article discusses the question of why and how the normalization between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel took place and managed to evolve into a peace agreement. It offers an additional explanation to the neorealists' scholarly and commonly accepted argument: that it was only the behavior of the revisionist state of Iran that was the motive for signing the peace agreement between the two states. Furthermore, the article argues that t…
The UN's Reports on Gender Stereotypes in Muslim Countries-Differentiation of Economic Development
This paper explores the differences in the content of commentary reports that the United Nations (UN) addressed to Islamic countries in the Stereotypes section. A significant association was found between types of violations and the level of the state's economic development. For high-income level countries, the commentaries addressed social perceptions violations. For low-level income countries, the commentaries focused on physical practices viol…
The Hyper-Truth War: The Role of Atrocities from a Postdigital Perspective
Photographs of killing fields, corpses, and war horrors have been circulating in the media since the Crimean War and the American Civil War. These testimonies of violence carry a high news value; they convey unifying messages to the nation and threatening messages to the enemy. These integrating and alienating media roles are amplified in a postdigital society where digital technology is woven into all aspects of social life (Jandrić 2022 ; Hoski…
Silent alliances and shifting tides: Unveiling the hidden pathways to resolving interstate rivalries – the UAE-Israel case
Purpose This study delves into the transformation of UAE-Israel relations, which transitioned from a long-term rivalry to a formal peace agreement in 2020. It aims to uncover the multifaceted elements that influenced both nations’ pursuit of bilateral negotiations, with a special emphasis on the role of unofficial collaboration. Design/methodology/approach Employing a case study approach, the research traces the evolution of the UAE-Israel ties, …
Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel: A realist alliance and a neoliberal knowledge-based economy cooperation, 2011–2022
This paper argues that Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel explains the strengthening of ties between the two states from 2011 to 2022. Most writings usually focus on realist explanations for this process, such as the anti-Iran alliance since the beginning of the 2000s. However, this paper argues that this is a necessary but insufficient explanation and suggests that in 2011, Azerbaijan decided to move to a knowledge-based eco…
A thin debate: Comparing the conflicting political narratives of the UN security council and general assembly on the Gaza Strip from 2006 to 2018
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–2023
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021
Since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, Israel's reactions have been met with criticism from a key friend: Russia. However, Moscow's public condemnation of the humanitarian crisis has not changed its material or normative policies toward Israel in other respects. This article analyzes Russia‐Israel relations, especially concerning the Syrian conflict between 2015 and 2021. It demonstrates how the two states developed norms and structural prac…
A diversionary benevolent media strategy: Lobbying Saudi Arabia's humanitarian aid in Arabic and English
Humanitarian aid is often accompanied by broad media coverage. In academic research, there is a dominant bias toward Western studies on the topic. Following studies that emphasize the negative role of autocratic regimes using their media to frame threats as an intra-state diversionary strategy, this study contributes to our understating of how autocratic regimes use the media and illuminates how they employ a diversionary benevolent strategy in t…
The meaning of sentiment analysis of UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine war: A comparative study using Vader and Bert NLP techniques
The use of natural language processing (NLP) to analyze political speeches provides valuable insights into global politics. Political discourse shapes public opinion and international relations, particularly in forums like the United Nations (UN). Sentiment analysis, a key NLP technique, helps uncover the emotional and strategic aspects of such speeches. This study evaluates the sentiment in UN speeches on the Russia-Ukraine conflict using two ad…
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel
This study examines how Hebrew-language sports media framed Jewish and Arab football clubs in Israel during the 2023–2024 football season, amid the ongoing Israel–Hamas war. Focusing on the ultra-nationalist Jewish club Beitar Jerusalem, the established Arab club Bnei Sakhnin, and the emerging Arab club Bnei Reineh, the analysis reveals distinct patterns shaped by framing theory (Entman, 1993) and peace journalism (Galtung, 2002). Despite compara…
Unifil and the ‘Security Zone’ in South Lebanon, 1985–2000: Traditional operations in the Post-Cold War Era
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