The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values

Andrei P. Tsygankov (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University)

The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
11 April 2019
Pages
192
ISBN
9780190919337

The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values

Andrei P. Tsygankov (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University)

Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites’ political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre-existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and accentuated by mass media. In Dark Double, Andrei P. Tsygankov focuses on the driving power of values and media, in addition to political and economic interests, in structuring US-Russia relations. By analyzing mainstream US newspapers and other media sources, Tsygankov identifies five media narratives involving Russia since the Cold War’s end and studies them through a framework of three inter-related factors: historic and cultural differences between the two countries, inter-state competition, and polarizing domestic politics. He shows how Americans’ negative views toward Russia draw from a deep wellspring of suspicion and are further enhanced by a biased media that regularly exploits such negativity, Russia’s centralization of power and anti-American attitudes. Given the intensity of our current impasse with Russia, Dark Double represents an important intervention that forces us to think about the sources of conflict in a new way.

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