Academic Publications and Scholarship

Books

The Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security, edited by Piers Robinson, Philip Seib and Romy Froelich. (2017)

Pockets of Resistance: British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Piers Robinson, Peter Goddard, Katy Parry, Craig Murray and Philip M. Taylor) (Manchester University Press, 2010) 

The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention (Routledge, 2002).

Articles, Chapters, Reports, Reviews and Briefing Notes

‘Propaganda, information and media, cancel culture, and the COVID-19 event’,  International Crisis Summit (Day 2), Edited volume of Conference Proceedings, Palace of the Parliament, Romania, (Nov. 18-19 2023). February 2024.

‘The Corrupt Politics of Chemical Weapons’, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 82(5): pp. 481-492. August 2023.

A Review of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact-Finding Mission Report into the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Douma, Syria, In April 2018: Evidence of Manipulation, Bias and Censorship, Berlin Group 21 (José Bustani, Richard Falk, Hans von Sponeck, Piers Robinson), Submitted to MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. May 2023.

“‘Russophobia’ and the New Cold War: The Case of the OPCW-Douma Controversy” in Russiagate Revisited: The Aftermath of a Hoax edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Stephen Marmura. (Palgrave/Springer Link, 2023).

‘”Cock-up or Conspiracy” Understanding COVID-19 as a “structural Deep Event”‘ Panda Papers, Updated July 2023 (first version published April 2022). 

‘Chemical Weapon Attacks and an Evil Dictator’: Outsourcing Propaganda during the War in Syria’ in Journalism and Foreign Policy edited by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Tabe Bergman. (Routledge: London and New York). (2022).

‘”Cock-up or Conspiracy” Understanding COVID-19 as a “structural Deep Event”‘ Panda Papers, April 2022.

‘Democracies and War Propaganda in the 21st Century’ in Research Handbook on Political Propaganda edited by Gary Rawnsley, Yiben Mia and Kruakae Pothong, Edward Elgar Publishing (2021) See update here.

Research Report: ‘The OPCW Douma Investigation: Manipulation of Key Toxicology and Related Information Regarding Alleged Victims between the Original Interim Report and the Final Report’ Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, December 2021.

Review of ‘Information Wars: The Battle for Hearts and Minds in the Middle East by Vyvyan Kinross’, Middle East Journal, 75(1): pp: 177-179). April 2021.

Briefing Note: ‘Update on the OPCW’s Investigation of the Douma Incident’, Paul McKeigue, David Miller and Piers Robinson. Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, March 2020.

Briefing Note: ‘James Le Measurer: a reconstruction of his business activities and covert role’ by Paul McKeigue, Jake Mason, Piers Robinson and David Miller’, Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, November 2019.

War and Media Since 9/11, Review Essay, European Journal of Communication, October 2019. Volume 34.

‘Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through “Propaganda Studies”‘, Frontiers in Communication, July 2019, Volume 4.

‘Propaganda, Manipulation and the Exercise of Imperial Power’ in Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner Miriness (eds) Media Imperialism: continuity and change, Rowman and Littlefield. (2019)

‘Propaganda, Politics and Deception’ (co-author David Miller) in Tony Docan-Morgan (ed) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication (Palgrave: MacMillan). (2019)

Briefing Note: Assessment by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018, Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, May 2019.

Briefing Note: On the Final Report of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission on the alleged the Alleged Chemical Attack on Douma, April 2018. Paul McKeigue, David Miller, Piers Robinson, (members of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media), April 2019.

Briefing Note: the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft, Paul Mckeigue, David Miller, Jake Mason and Piers Robinson (members of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media), December 2018.

Briefing Note: the alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018, and other alleged chlorine attacks in Syria since 2014, Paul McKeigue, Jake Mason, David Miller, Piers Robinson (members of the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda), (September 2018)

Organized Persuasive Communication: A New Conceptual Framework for Research on Promotional Culture, Public Relations and Propaganda (co-authors Vian Bakir, Eric Herring and David Miller) Critical Sociology (2018)

‘Does the Propaganda Model Actually Theorise Propaganda’ in Joan Pedro-Caranana, Daniel Broudy and Jeffery Klaehn (eds) The Propaganda Model Today, (University of Westminster Press). (2018).

‘Deception and Lying in Politics’ (co-authors Vian Bakir, Eric Herring and David Miller) in Oxford Handbook on Lying (ed. Jorg Mauber), (Oxford: Oxford University Press). (2018)

‘The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Crisis’ in Anderson R & de Silva PL (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action (New York: Routledge). (2018).

‘The CNN effect and the Persuasive Power of Images’ in Roland Bleiker (ed) Visual Global Politics (2018, Palgrave Macmillan)

‘Does the Propaganda Model Actually Theorise Propaganda’ in Joan Pedro-Caranana, Daniel Broudy and Jeffery Klaehn (eds) The Propaganda Model Today, (University of Westminster Press). (2018).

‘Deception and Lying in Politics’ (co-authors Vian Bakir, Eric Herring and David Miller) in Oxford Handbook on Lying (ed. Jorg Mauber), (Oxford: Oxford University Press). (2018)

‘The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Crisis’ in Anderson R & de Silva PL (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action (New York: Routledge). (2018).

‘The CNN effect and the Persuasive Power of Images’ in Roland Bleiker (ed) Visual Global Politics (2018, Palgrave Macmillan)

‘Media and War’ in Travis Rider (ed) New Directions in Media and Politics, (2012 and 2018, Routledge).

‘Media and Public Opinion’, US Foreign Policy, Mick Cox and Doug Stokes (eds) (Oxford, Oxford University Press, fourth editions 2018, third edition 2016; second edition 2012; first edition 2008). (Text book).

‘Learning from the Chilcot Report: Propaganda, deception and the ‘war on terror’, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (2017)

‘The Media and Foreign Policy’ in the Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2017)

‘Propaganda and Conflict’, co-authored with David Miller and Vian Bakir, in P. Robinson, P. Seib and R. Fröhlich (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security (2017).

‘The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Action’ in P. Robinson, P. Seib and R. Fröhlich (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security (2017).

‘Media and Public Opinion’, Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations, Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (Eds) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition 2017, 2nd edition 2012, 1^st edition 2008). (Text book).

‘Moving Media and Conflict Studies Beyond the CNN Effect’ Review of International Studies (2016)

‘News Media, Communication Technology and Humanitarianism’, Routledge Handbook on Humanitarian Action edited by Roger Mac Ginty and Jenny Peterson. (Routledge 2015).

‘The Propaganda Model: Still Relevant Today?’ in Alison Edgley (ed) Noam Chomsky: Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought Series, (Palgrave, Macmillan: 2015) (8000 words).‘News Media, Communications and the Limits of Perception Management During Military Operations’ Tactical Transitions edited collection, (Oxford University Press) 2014.

‘Report X Marks the Spot: The British Government’s Deceptive Dossier on Iraq and WMD’ Political Science Quarterly (2014)

‘Deception and Britain’s Road to War in Iraq’, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2014, 8 (2): pp.

‘Media empowerment vs. strategies of control: Theorising news media and war in the 21^st Century’, Zeitschrift fuer Politik, 2014.

‘Political Communication in International Relations and War’ in Carsten Reineman (ed) Political Communication, Handbook of Communication Science (2014, De Gruyter Mouton).

“‘Telling it like it is’; contemporary war, propaganda, media and the state’ in David Welch (ed) Propaganda, Power and Persuasion, (2013) I.B. Taurus, London.

‘The Policy Media Interaction Model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis’ reprinted’ reprinted in Timothy Legrand and Allan McConnell (Eds), The Library of Essays on Emergency Ethics, Law and Policy (2013) Ashgate), (Original article published in Journal of Peace Research, 2000).

 ‘Measuring Media Criticism of War and Political Elites: A Response to Florian Zollmann’ Global Media and Communication, 2012 8(2): 177-185.

‘Media and War’ in Travis Rider (ed) New Directions in Media and Politics, (2012 and 2018, Routledge).

‘The Policy Media Interaction Model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis’ reprinted in International Communication edited by Daya Thussu, Sage Benchmarks in Communication (Sage; Thousand Oaks, 2012), (Original article published in Journal of Peace Research, 2000).

‘Media and War’, Sage Handbook of Political Communication, edited by Holli Semetko and Maggie Scammell (2012: Sage; Thousand Oaks).

The CNN Effect Reconsidered: Mapping a Research Agenda for the Future’, Editors intro to Special Issue ‘The CNN effect reconsidered’ Media, War and Conflict, 4(1): 2011.

‘Not in Our Name’: British press, the anti-war movement and the Iraq Crisis 2002-2009, co-authors Craig Murray, Katy Parry and Peter Goddard in Simon Cottle and Libby Lester (eds) Transnational Protests and the Media (2011 Peter Lang: New York).

‘Testing Models of Media Performance in Wartime: UK TV News and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq’, co-authors Peter Goddard, Katy Parry and Craig Murray, Journal of Communication 59(3): 534-563. 2009.

‘UK Media and Media-Management during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq’, co-authors Peter Goddard and Katy Parry, Special Issue on Media and Public Diplomacy edited by Holli Semetko, American Behavioural Scientist, 51(5): 678-688. 2009.

‘Reporting Dissent in Wartime: British Press, the anti-war movement and the 2003 Iraq War’, co-authors Craig Murray, Katy Parry and Peter Goddard, European Journal of Communication, 23(1): 7-27. 2008.

‘Patriotism meets plurality: Reporting the 2003 Iraq War in the British Press’, co-authors Peter Goddard and Katy Parry, Media, War and Conflict (launch issue of first journal to specialise on media and conflict), 1(1): 9-30. 2008.

‘Politics and Mass Media: A Response to John Street’, co-authored with John Corner, Political Studies Review, 2006, 1: pp. 26-32.

’War and Media’, co-authored with Robin Brown (Leeds), Peter Goddard and Katy Parry (Liverpool), Media Culture and Society. November 2005, 27(6): pp. 951-959.

‘The CNN Effect Revisited’, Critical Studies in Media Communications. 2005, 22(4): pp. 344-349.

 ‘Researching US Media-State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars’ in Barbie Zelizer & Stuart Allen (eds.,) Reporting War, (Routledge: London and New York, 2004).

‘Too Polemical or Too Critical? Chomsky on the Study of the news media and US foreign Policy’, co-authored with Dr Eric Herring (Bristol), Forum on Chomsky convened by myself and Eric Herring, Review of International Studies, 2003, 29(4): pp. 553-568.

‘Global Television and Conflict Resolution: Defining the Limits of the CNN Effect’ in Eytan Gilboa (ed) Media and Conflict: framing issues, making policy, shaping opinions, (Transnational Publishers, Ardsley NY, 2002).

Operation Restore Hope and the Illusion of a News Media Driven Intervention’, Political Studies, 2001, 49(5): 941-956.

‘Theorizing the Influence of Media on World Politics: models of media influence on foreign policy’, European Journal of Communication, 2001, 16(4): 523-544. (8000 word refereed research article).

‘Media Power and World Politics: problems of research design’, Media, Culture and Society, 2000, 22(2), pp. 227-232.

‘The News Media and Intervention: Triggering the Use of Air Power During Humanitarian Crisis’, Special Issue on Media and Kosovo, European Journal of Communication, 2000, 15(3), pp. 405-414.

‘The Policy Media Interaction Model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis’ Journal of Peace Research, 2000, 37(5), pp. 625-645.

‘Misperception in Foreign Policy Making: Operation Deliberate Force and the Ending of War in Bosnia’, Civil Wars. 2001, 4(4): pp. 115-125.

‘The CNN effect: can the news media drive foreign policy?’, Review of International Studies 1999, 25(2), pp. 301-309.