The role of social media in making international crises

The phenomenon of making international crises is considered one of the ancient and renewed phenomena in the scope of international relations. Each historical stage presents its own models for manufactured crises, which are the result of the interactions of the system of economic, social, political, cultural, technological, and media power associated with the stage. The traditional and the new within the scope of this system, as the historical analysis of the international crisis industry shows the high and ever-increasing relative importance of media variables in the context of the crisis industry and through its successive stages. Their intensity, as well as their topics, causes, objectives, elements, characteristics, means, methods and strategies of their use in the context of making international crises, as well as the counter strategies that can be adopted to deal with these crises made in the light of contemporary media and political experience in this field.
The problem of the research is represented in an attempt to monitor, analyze and interpret the system of contemporary power and the position of the media, including the means of social communication, and its reflection on the high and increasing relative influence of these means in the industry of international crises through its successive stages, and to determine the scope of its impact on its topics, characteristics, directions, turnover and level of intensity, including It contributes to reaching the development of appropriate strategies and methods to deal with it. The research plan in this study can be defined as follows:
First: the system of contemporary power and the position of the media and social communication in it.
Second: the widening scope of the influence of the media and social communication.
Third: Contemporary international crisis industry.
Fourth: Employing social media in creating international crises.