Dark Double - Us Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values

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 ends and shows how Americans' negative views toward Russia draw from a deep wellspring of suspicion and are further enhanced by a biased media thatregularly exploits such negativity, Russia's centralization of power and anti-American attitudes.

List of contents

• Preface


• List of Figures and Tables


• 1. Values and Media in US-Russia Relations


• 2. Fears of Russia, Suppressed and Revealed


• 3. American "Universal" Values and Russia


• 4. Russia Fights Back


• 5. Russophobia in the Age of Donald Trump


• 6. Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Andrei P. Tsygankov is Professor at the departments of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University. He has published widely in the West, and his books have been translated in Russian and Chinese. He is the author of Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin (2012), Russophobia (2009) and is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Andrei P Tsygankov, Andrei P. Tsygankov, Andrei P. (Professor of Political Scien Tsygankov
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9780190919344
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091934-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Geopolitics, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA