Abdel Salam Sidahmed is associate professor of political science at University of Windsor. He co-authored Sudan: The Contemporary Middle East, and Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.Walter C. Soderlund has worked extensively in mass media studies with the Center for Social Justice. He also co-authored Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.E. Donald Briggs is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Windsor.

Sidahmed, Soderlund, and Briggs (all, Univ. of Windsor, Canada) present two essays in just over 100 pages. One is a rapid survey of the proclaimed genocide in Darfur, centering on the contradiction of respect for state sovereignty and the doctrine of an international responsibility to protect (R2P) citizens inside states. The second is a survey of the several years of reporting and interpretation by the mass media. The audience for the first will find a workmanlike summary of events. The audience for the second will find a useful short investigation of how the media treated news of the mass killings and the issue of intervention. The New York Times as the exemplar of serious press gains special attention; Nicholas Kristof is credited with keeping the Darfur story alive. The media section of this book reflects some original research with interesting analyses of the nature and amount of coverage. Overall, the conclusions are unsurprising: R2P remains a failure in Darfur, and how to square the doctrine of state sovereignty with the actual ability to enforce remains a dilemma. As readers might expect, the mass media does an inadequate job of covering continuing humanitarian crises. Copious appendixes and bibliography. Recommended.

• Chapter 1 State Sovereignty and the Responsibility to ProtectChapter 2 Understanding the Darfur CrisisChapter 3 Mass Media, Public Opinion, and the International InterventionChapter 4 Broadcast Television News CoverageChapter 5 New York Times CoverageChapter 6 Mass Media and the Responsibility to Protect

Abdel Salam Sidahmed is associate professor of political science at University of Windsor. He co-authored Sudan: The Contemporary Middle East, and Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.Walter C. Soderlund has worked extensively in mass media studies with the Center for Social Justice. He also co-authored Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.E. Donald Briggs is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Windsor.

Sidahmed, Soderlund, and Briggs (all, Univ. of Windsor, Canada) present two essays in just over 100 pages. One is a rapid survey of the proclaimed genocide in Darfur, centering on the contradiction of respect for state sovereignty and the doctrine of an international responsibility to protect (R2P) citizens inside states. The second is a survey of the several years of reporting and interpretation by the mass media. The audience for the first will find a workmanlike summary of events. The audience for the second will find a useful short investigation of how the media treated news of the mass killings and the issue of intervention. The New York Times as the exemplar of serious press gains special attention; Nicholas Kristof is credited with keeping the Darfur story alive. The media section of this book reflects some original research with interesting analyses of the nature and amount of coverage. Overall, the conclusions are unsurprising: R2P remains a failure in Darfur, and how to square the doctrine of state sovereignty with the actual ability to enforce remains a dilemma. As readers might expect, the mass media does an inadequate job of covering continuing humanitarian crises. Copious appendixes and bibliography. Recommended.

• Chapter 1 State Sovereignty and the Responsibility to ProtectChapter 2 Understanding the Darfur CrisisChapter 3 Mass Media, Public Opinion, and the International InterventionChapter 4 Broadcast Television News CoverageChapter 5 New York Times CoverageChapter 6 Mass Media and the Responsibility to Protect

Abdel Salam Sidahmed is associate professor of political science at University of Windsor. He co-authored Sudan: The Contemporary Middle East, and Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.Walter C. Soderlund has worked extensively in mass media studies with the Center for Social Justice. He also co-authored Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media.E. Donald Briggs is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Windsor.

Sidahmed, Soderlund, and Briggs (all, Univ. of Windsor, Canada) present two essays in just over 100 pages. One is a rapid survey of the proclaimed genocide in Darfur, centering on the contradiction of respect for state sovereignty and the doctrine of an international responsibility to protect (R2P) citizens inside states. The second is a survey of the several years of reporting and interpretation by the mass media. The audience for the first will find a workmanlike summary of events. The audience for the second will find a useful short investigation of how the media treated news of the mass killings and the issue of intervention. The New York Times as the exemplar of serious press gains special attention; Nicholas Kristof is credited with keeping the Darfur story alive. The media section of this book reflects some original research with interesting analyses of the nature and amount of coverage. Overall, the conclusions are unsurprising: R2P remains a failure in Darfur, and how to square the doctrine of state sovereignty with the actual ability to enforce remains a dilemma. As readers might expect, the mass media does an inadequate job of covering continuing humanitarian crises. Copious appendixes and bibliography. Recommended.

• Chapter 1 State Sovereignty and the Responsibility to ProtectChapter 2 Understanding the Darfur CrisisChapter 3 Mass Media, Public Opinion, and the International InterventionChapter 4 Broadcast Television News CoverageChapter 5 New York Times CoverageChapter 6 Mass Media and the Responsibility to Protect