Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Syria's civil war
  • Evolving norms of international involvement in domestic conflicts: the responsibility to protect
  • The role of the press in framing conflict
  • Conflict framing in 2011
  • Conflict framing in 2012
  • Conflict framing in 2013: January 1 through August 21
  • The August 2013 chemical weapons attack: framing of a possible military response
  • Conclusion.