Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere

Main author: Mahlouly, Dounia
Other authors: Al Saud, Abdullah
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description This chapter explores how president Trump’s discourse on foreign policy and global security is reported in the MENA region. We identify how Trumps’ allegedly alternative approach to foreign policy impacted on the geopolitical concerns of US allies in the Middle East. Simultaneously, we examine how his relationship with well-established allies as well as his administration’s positions on global security have been reported in the Arab press by investigating a sample extracted from different Arab media outlets including Al Ahram, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. Through policy and discourse analysis of Trump’s official and tweeted pronouncements, we evaluate to what extent Trump’s policy is regarded as consistent with his presidential campaign, and how these are perceived in Middle Eastern media and in wider international media ecologies.
author_additional Happer, Catherine
author_additionalStr Happer, Catherine
format Book Chapters
author Mahlouly, Dounia
author_facet Mahlouly, Dounia
Al Saud, Abdullah
authorStr Mahlouly, Dounia
author_letter Mahlouly, Dounia
author2 Al Saud, Abdullah
author2Str Al Saud, Abdullah
title Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere
publisher Palgrave Macmillan
publishDate 2018
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31123/