I am delighted to announce that Media, War & Conflict have published a special issue revisiting the 'CNN effect' which drew so much attention in the 1990s. Back then, policymakers feared that if their publics could see events overseas unfold in real-time, those publics would expect their governments to take action. The space between event, deliberation and action seemed to be compressed to the instant. Over 15 years later, in a transformed media ecology, what is the relationship between media, publics and policy in the field of foreign policy?

The table of contents is below. For those without a subscript, please email Ben.OLoughlin@rhul.ac.uk for copies of any of the articles.

• • Piers Robinson

  The CNN effect reconsidered: mapping a research agenda for the future

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 3-11, doi:10.1177/1750635210397434
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  • Nik Gowing

  Time to move on: new media realities - new vulnerabilities of power

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 13-19, doi:10.1177/1750635210397637
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  • Steven Livingston

  The CNN effect reconsidered (again): problematizing ICT and global governance in the CNN effect research agenda

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 20-36, doi:10.1177/1750635210396127
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  • Babak Bahador

  Did the Global War on Terror end the CNN effect?

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 37-54, doi:10.1177/1750635210396123
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  • Virgil Hawkins

  Media selectivity and the other side of the CNN effect: the consequences of not paying attention to conflict

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 55-68, doi:10.1177/1750635210396126
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  • Ekaterina Balabanova

  Media and foreign policy in central and eastern Europe post 9/11: in from the cold?

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 69-82, doi:10.1177/1750635210396124
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  • Douglas A Van Belle and
  • David M Potter

  Japanese foreign disaster assistance: the ad hoc period in international politics and the illusion of a CNN effect

  Media, War & Conflict April 2011 4: 83-95, doi:10.1177/1750635210396125
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