This dissertation examines the relations between the local base of the anti-Iraq War movement and the local press in the UK. It is, as such, a study of the interactions between local newsworkers and local activists, as well as a Content Analysis study of how the Iraq crisis, and particularly opposition to military action, was reported on in the pages of the local press. Key questions to be addressed include how local journalists assessed the legitimacy of the antiwar movement; how, and the reasons why, opponents of the war sought local press coverage, and with what consequences (if any) their interactions with the media may have had for the movement; and how the local press handled the almost uniquely controversial nature of the Iraq crisis in its reporting. Most previous research on the Iraq crisis has focused on the national media local media has hitherto been absent from the research agenda. Likewise, the majority of research on social movements has usually focused on the national leaderships of those movements again the local dimension of social movements has rarely been studied. In these ways it is hoped that the study makes a unique contribution to research into both the reporting of the Iraq crisis, and to the study of the interactions between social movements and the media.

This thesis considers the transformation of Iranian-Israeli ties following the 1979 Iranian Revolution from a Western-allied relationship to a covert, scandalous relationship, specifically in the context of the Iran-Iraq War. I also look at the Iranian and Israeli narratives and compare the religious, historical, ideological and psycho-political underpinnings that reveal significant similarities between these two superficially diametrically opposed states, and ultimately shaped the complex and misunderstood relationship between the two countries. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-109). / vi, 109 leaves, bound col. ill., col. map 29 cm

Thesis (LL. M.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Jutta Brunnee.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 26, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-67).

Thesis (M.J.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-112). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151).

Thesis (M.S.)--School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, 2008. / "June 2008." Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2009. / Title from dissertation title page (viewed Nov. 2, 2009). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.SS. (Political Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.