#  Can the Press Be an Actor in International Relations? Towards a Theory of Media Agency in Conflict Settings. 

 



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 **April 8, 2026** 

 04:00PM EDT 

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 **RCCHU Conference Room**  

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**Can the press become an actor in International Relations rather than merely an observer of them?** IR theory has long overlooked the press as an autonomous participant in the international system. While non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations, and international institutions are routinely analyzed as non-state actors, media organizations tend to appear only as background conditions shaping diplomacy rather than agents within it.

**If diplomacy involves struggles over legitimacy, visibility, and influence across borders, what happens when institutions capable of shaping public narratives enter that arena?** This talk proposes a conceptual shift by introducing the Media–Diplomatic Triangulation Framework, a theoretical model that identifies the conditions under which a media institution moves from reporting international events to actively intervening in them.

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**Speaker: Teresa Martín** | PhD Candidate in International Relations **Complutense University of Madrid:** Department of International Relations and Global History

**Harvard University:** The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights



 

 



 

 

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