Taiwan’s International Media and Diplomacy

2000 ◽  
pp. 106-134
Author(s):  
Gary D. Rawnsley
Keyword(s):  
International Media

The Alliance between Fundamentalist Christians and the Pro-Israel Lobby: Christian Zionism in US Middle East Policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Donald E. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
International Media ◽  
Christian Zionism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Middle East Policy ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Political Scene

It is a common assumption in the international media that the fundamentalist Christian Right suddenly appeared on the US political scene following the 11 September 2001 tragedy, and that it became a major force in shaping US policy in the Middle East. While it is true that fundamentalist Christians have exercised considerable influence during the George W. Bush administration, their ascendance is neither new nor surprising. The movement has demonstrated political influence in the US and England intermittently for more than a hundred years, particularly in the formation of Middle East policy. This article focuses on the unique theology and historical development of Christian Zionism, noting its essential beliefs, its emergence in England during the nineteenth century, and how it grew to gain prominence in the US. The alliance of the pro-Israel lobby, the neo-conservative movement, and several Christian Zionist organizations in the US represents a formidable source of support for the more maximalist views of Israel's Likud Party. In the run-up to the 2004 US presidential elections this alliance could potentially thwart any progress on an Israeli–Palestinian peace plan in the near future. Moreover, Likud ideology is increasingly evident in US Middle East policy as a result of this alliance.

scholarly journals Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110081
Author(s):  
TJ Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
News Values ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
International Media ◽  
The World ◽  
News Photographs ◽  
Visual Expression ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Human Actors

This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 bushfire season was depicted for Australian and non-Australian audiences in order to extend transnational understanding of iconicity’s tenets and how news values vary across contexts. It does so first by examining the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage over 3 months and then by contrasting this with international coverage that began in early 2020 once the issue spilled onto the world stage. Australia’s coverage focused intensely on human actors involved in the disaster while the vast numbers of affected animals were virtually absent. In contrast, international media visually depicted the disaster as an environmental and ecological issue with global consequences. The results suggest a need for a definition of iconicity that is inclusive to non-human actors and to inanimate forces that are personified. It also extends our cross-cultural understanding of the visual expression of news values.

scholarly journals Sustainability in the European Union: Analyzing the Discourse of the European Green Deal

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Eva Eckert ◽  
Oleksandra Kovalevska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Media ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

In the European Union, the concern for sustainability has been legitimized by its politically and ecologically motivated discourse disseminated through recent policies of the European Commission and the local as well as international media. In the article, we question the very meaning of sustainability and examine the European Green Deal, the major political document issued by the EC in 2019. The main question pursued in the study is whether expectations verbalized in the Green Deal’s plans, programs, strategies, and developments hold up to the scrutiny of critical discourse analysis. We compare the Green Deal’s treatment of sustainability to how sustainability is presented in environmental and social science scholarship and point out that research, on the one hand, and the politically motivated discourse, on the other, do not correlate and often actually contradict each other. We conclude that sustainability discourse and its keywords, lexicon, and phraseology have become a channel through which political institutions in the EU such as the European Commission sideline crucial environmental issues and endorse their own presence. The Green Deal discourse shapes political and institutional power of the Commission and the EU.

Emerging Securities Markets in China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

1994 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 1105-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon M. Karmel
Keyword(s):  
Securities Markets ◽  
Bond Markets ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
International Media ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Government ◽  
Means Of Production

The nascent stock and bond markets in the People's Republic of China have received considerable attention from the international media, yet the emergence of these markets is poorly understood. China's new “limited stock companies” increasingly answer to a variety of public and private lenders and spenders, who partially own and largely manage the means of production. The government sometimes decides which companies and managers will be rewarded with the benefits of incorporation, and it grabs a lion's share of the newly issued securities. But the result is a slow, government-led move towards a more capitalist form of management and ownership. This kind of jointly funded project – companies that merge public and private ownership, management and responsibility – may become the defining characteristic of China's emerging “capitalism with Chinese characteristics.”

scholarly journals The Representation of the Algerian Hirak Protest Movement in the International Media: France 24 and Al-Jazeera

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1930646
Author(s):  
Sara Kessar ◽  
Ghaleb Rabab’Ah ◽  
Wafa Al-Khadra ◽  
Hady J. Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Al Jazeera ◽  
International Media ◽  
Protest Movement

Minority Participation in an Islamic Negara

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li Pang
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Media ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Minority Participation ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Muslim Minorities

On the 1st of May 2014, Negara Brunei Darussalam declared the implementation of an Islamic criminal code of law, thus becoming the first country in modern Southeast Asia to declare so. Inevitably, Brunei was scrutinised by the international media, particularly over its relations with its non-Muslim minorities. This paper investigates the causes of the international media’s anxieties by analysing the socio-political circumstances of the non-Muslim minorities in Brunei, with particular focus on its ethnic Chinese citizens, and with reference to the Islamic Law of Minorities, or ahle dhimmah. Perspectives of the Islamic Law of Minorities toward Brunei’s Chinese citizens are also examined within the political-cultural context of Negara. Thus, exploring simultaneously these concepts, Islam and Negara, this paper asserts that the Islamic Law of Minorities has long been upheld in the Brunei Negara, serving to foster the coexistence of peoples of various ethnic and religious affiliations within the Abode of Peace.

The murder of Jennifer Alfonso

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yardley
Keyword(s):  
Identity Management ◽  
Partner Abuse ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Intimate Partner Abuse ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Intimate Partner Homicide ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Media Practices

This chapter analyses the murder of Jennifer Alfonso by her husband Derek Medina in Florida on August 8, 2013. Jennifer's murder was what criminologists call an intimate partner homicide (IPH). International media reports of the case followed a well-established pattern that devalued IPH, treating the homicide as a one-off event where an otherwise ‘normal’ perpetrator ‘snaps’ and loses control in a moment of madness. The fact that Derek had posted on Facebook was at the very the centre of the story, if not the story itself. The chapter first describes the background of Derek and Jennifer's relationship, Derek's media practices, and his attempt at identity management after his arrest before examining his Facebook homicide confession. It also contextualises the murder in relation to the relevant literature on intimate partner abuse and IPH.

Poland's Party Politics: The Extraordinary Congress of 1981

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy J. Wiatr
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
International Media

For seven days in July 1981 the politics of the Polish United Workers Party remained in the centre of attention of international media. The IXth Extraordinary Congress of the PUWP produced an unprecedented atmosphere of drama and suspense. When it was over, its importance was heralded by terms such as “a watershed,” and “a historic turning point.”

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