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Statehood for Puerto Rico
By Jowen H. Ortiz Cintrón, MA Media and Strategic Communication, 2022 Three Things that statehooders should fix in their narrative Puerto Rico is not legally a country but is the longest-standing colony in the world that has its own culture and national...
ICC Probe Investigating Israel: The Divergent Narratives Within
By Basil Awartani, M.A. Media & Strategic Communication, 2021 Two years ago, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that the court had uncovered evidence of war crimes committed in the West Bank and Gaza by Israel. Based on these initial...
Battle of Narratives in the Fight for Kosovo
By Sydney Booker, MA Media and Strategic Communication, 2021 Kosovo and Serbia have been engaged in a battle of narratives for hundreds of years. In recent years, that battle has entered the world stage. While Serbia holds onto their narrative that Kosovo belongs to...
Dueling Messages: anti-Turkish Narrative and Counter-narrative in the Libyan War
By Richard Outzen, retired U.S. army officer Experts have come to recognize that international competition in the Internet era includes a continuous struggle to define conflicts and outcomes through messaging on social and mass media. When actors define a situation by...
The EU and Russia: Narratives Collide Over Belarus
By Madelyn Berner, MA Global Communication, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell. | EFE via EPA The European Union and Russia have long held competing narratives that prohibit the two sides from...
