THE MASS MEDIA TODAY: DISCOURSES OF DOMINATION OR DIVERSITY? : SUMMARY The thesis written by Teun A. Van Dijk talks about how the western media takes a one sided view- portraying minorities‚ immigrants etc in a negative light while still trying to prove itself independent of any bias. He explains that although neo-liberal discourse may now be prevailing‚ but it also exhibits conflicts and contradictions. The optimistic rhetoric of a New World Order after the Cold War is replaced by deep-seated
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International relations (IR) is the study of relationships among countries‚ the roles of sovereign states‚ inter-governmental organizations (IGO)‚international non-governmental organizations (INGO)‚ non-governmental organizations (NGO)‚ and multinational corporations (MNC). International relations is an academic and a public policy field‚ and so can be positive and normative‚ because it analyzes and formulates the foreign policy of a given State. As political activity‚ international relations dates
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Structural Adjustment – A development policy promotes in Western nations‚ particularly the United States‚ that requires poor nations to pursue free market reforms in order to get new loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Neoliberalism – Political and economic policies promoting free trade‚ individual initiative‚ and minimal government regulation of the economy and opposing state control or subsidy to industries and all but minimal aid to impoverished individuals Human Needs
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When our group conferred to brainstorm a relevant leadership issue‚ our challenge wasn’t thinking of an issue that we had witnessed‚ but rather to find one that we found to be universally salient‚ affecting multiple social service agencies on many organizational levels. Although each of us had a different professional background‚ an issue we have repeatedly observed surrounds the notion of employee retention within social service agencies. Too often we had felt the effects of rapid turnover
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temporary due to their stimulation of oppositional forces and rise of rival centers of power) which would explain the rise of the global civil society. The theory therefore indicates that the global civil society is a counter-reaction against neoliberalism. This therefore underlines the ideology behind most the movements in advocating for worldwide social justice directed towards a need for extending the impact of human rights‚ coming up with networks to pressurize international organizations (Kaldor
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As the technologies of modern societies have progressed and evermore products are present on the shelves of markets each day‚ massive consumption has plagued the consumers of the first world‚ but it is not entirely their fault. There has been a shift in the “Daily We” paradigm (each member acting for the good of the whole with a strong sense of community) to the “Daily Me” –people acting in their self-interest‚ doing what they want with total disregard for their impact on the community as a whole
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Introduction – A Kaleidoscope of Governance Since the last international climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009‚ political narrative has focused on filling policy gaps in the environmental governance regime. Supra-territorial ‘global commons’ problems such as greenhouse gas emission require transborder solutions as globalizing corporations increasingly stretch across different national regulatory regimes. In response‚ the incipient polycentric governance approach promotes cross-influence among
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According to Maxwell and Miller‚ capitalism has treated labor and the environment as manipulatable cogs that can be controlled from long distance since the 19th century. This has been done through trans-national textual and military domination but also through a larger division of labor and the growing impression that human and nonhuman nature are disconnected. Maxwell and Miller explain that manual laborers in the 19th century started to understand that even though capitalists didn’t do any tangible/productive
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Queens College Department of Political Science PSC 104: International Politics Spring 2014 THU: 6:30 - 9:20 PM Instructor: Muhammad Kabir Room: PH 211 muhammad.kabir@qc.cuny.edu Office
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The character of politics makes consistency pretty close to impossible‚ partly because politicians are human and human nature is inconsistent‚ and partly because the voters don’t really want consistency. As voters‚ we have the luxury of holding politicians to standards we would almost certainly be unable to meet if we were in their positions. And when they fail‚ we revile them for their hypocrisy‚ which is as pointless as reviling a dog for having a moist nose. Now‚ all of this may make Auntie
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