Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Europe — Discourse — Politics — Media — History: Constructing ‘Crises’?

Chapter 3 Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere

Chapter 4 Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War Two

Chapter 6 The Berlin Wall Crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe

Chapter 7 Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe

Chapter 8 ‘Progressive’ versus ‘Bureaucratic’ Socialism: the Media Coverage of Prague 1968 in the ‘Other’ Europe

Chapter 9 The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 ‘State of War’ in the European Press

Chapter 10 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-Oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse

Chapter 11 Europe’s Role in the World: the Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War

Chapter 12 The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis 2006: the Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere

Chapter 13 Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere