2007-2008 – The End of Bush & The Rise of The UN: Link Analysis of World Media Headlines
2007-2008 – The End of Bush & The Rise of The UN: Link Analysis of World Media Headlines

Summary/Abstract: Following the publication of World Politics & "Parapolitics" 2006: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis of International Media Headlines (2009, Harmattan), based on the analysis of over 7,000 titles, we have continued our research with the analysis of 2007-2008 titles. Since the same Calliope link analysis method –co-occurrence of key words– has been systematically used, we can present not only the network of key word clusters for each year, but also compare they one to another and describe the longitudinal evolution of world politics during the end of the Bush administration. If 2006 saw the quasi disappearance of China from media headlines and the beginning of the ostracism of Israel and the “creditablization” of Hamas, 2007 and 2008 saw the realization of the “worst nightmare” of US conservatives and the Republican Party: the replacement of the Bush administration by the United Nations on the international scene, as analyzed through world media headlines.

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