The Government during the Kosovo Crisis—The Macro Review

Abstract

This chapter now turns to the second key element essential for a CNN effect—impact on government foreign policy. In the second chapter, four tests in relation to the government and its policy were introduced for validating cases of the CNN effect. This chapter focuses on the first two of these tests—the quantitative and the coding tests. The next chapter focuses on the last two tests—the policy substance and the linkage tests. This division is made because the first two tests review the 15-month period before NATO intervention in Kosovo in its entirety, while the latter two review the period over seven phases, discerning the periods before and after the events meeting the media criteria for the CNN effect. As such, this chapter is subtitled “The Macro Review,” while the next chapter is subtitled “The Micro Review.”