Ingrid Lehmann is the former director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna and currently teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Salzburg, Austria. In her 25-year career with the United Nations, Lehmann also served as director of the U.N.’s Information Offices in Washington, D.C. and Athens, Greece. She worked in the U.N.’s Department for Disarmament Affairs and in its peacekeeping missions in Cyprus and Namibia. Lehmann holds Master’s degrees in political science (Berlin) and history (Minnesota), as well as a doctorate in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She was a Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1993–94 and a research associate at Yale University’s U.N. Studies Program in 1995–96. Lehmann has published a book Peacekeeping and Public Information — Caught in the Crossfire (London, 1999). She will compare U.S. and German media reporting on the U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq in 2002–03.
Exploring the Transatlantic Media Divide Over Iraq: How and Why U.S and German Media Differed in Reporting on U.N. Weapons Inspections in Iraq: 2002–2003
January 1, 2004
A paper by Ingrid A. Lehmann, spring 2004 fellow, explores the role of the media in the weakening bond between the United States and Western European countries in the wake of events in Iraq, and the divergence of public opinion about the war between the U.S. and Germany. Were the differing public perceptions of the
