News, Nations, and Power Relations: How Neoliberal Media Reproduce a Hierarchical World Order

This article adopts a poststructural approach to examine the relationship between news media and international relations. It compares 15 years of aid coverage from two donor nations, United States Britain, recipient India Pakistan, understand types identities construct for nation in relation other nations. Despite their differences, discourse all four nations has neoliberal orientation. Moreover, neoliberalism underpins hierarchical structure relations that privileges some as superior makes willing participants own subordination. While scholars press–state regard newsmaking epiphenomenal foreign policymaking, this argues policymaking are mutually constitutive social phenomena: both draw and, turn, reproduce shared conception national identity vis-à-vis In doing so, illustrates productive power