When National Security Is the Priority - A Comparative Analysis of the UK, the USA and Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
David KC Huang ◽  
Nigel N.T. Li
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Features of the Western and Chinese Media Reports about Hong Kong Protests in Terms of Tolerance

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Niu Mengdi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Western Media

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of publications by Western media and Chinese media during the period of the unrest and protests caused by an amendment to the “Fugitive Offenders Ordinance” in Hong Kong in the summer of 2019. The relevance is explained by the fact that in the summer of 2019, Hong Kong immediately became the center of attention of the world community and the press. The innovation lies in comparative analysis of Chinese and Western media texts in the aspect of tolerance. The purpose of the study is to identify the reporting frames on Hong Kong protests in different countries (China, the USA, the UK) and analyze their characteristics. The author’s attention is focused on the problem of tolerance / intolerance in the discussing of events in Hong Kong by Western and Chinese media. Content analysis, frame analysis and the method of comparative studies are used in this article. Content analysis of the news reports from The Washington Post, People’s Daily and the BBC website from July to August 2019 was conducted to clarify their tones and directions, as well as the meaning of the metaphors used by journalists. The frame analysis is to identify differences in event assessments, information sources, theme settings, report objects, main subjects and event definitions in the analyzed media. The language features in texts were also compared.By results of the study, we see clear ideological bias and tendentiousness in reports from the Western media, and also the inability to have a tolerant vision. The Chinese media also strongly show peculiarities of ideology and obvious propagandistic tendency. The dogmatism of propagandistic thoughts interferes with objective perception of the situation. Conclusions: mass medias holding different positions, “choosing” and “constructing” social realities in their news reports, painting different pictures and choosing their own perspectives to reflect attitude of the authority towards participants in the movements. In this way, they take completely irreconcilable positions. Keywords: Hong Kong, protest, assessment, reportage, tolerance/intolerance

scholarly journals Practices and trajectories: A comparative analysis of reading in France, Norway, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Southerton ◽  
Wendy Olsen ◽  
Alan Warde ◽  
Shu-Li Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Perspectives and obstacles of the shareholder activism implementation: A comparative analysis of civil and common law systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 520-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khurram Parvez Raja ◽  
Alex Kostyuk
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Shareholder Activism ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The paper outlines shareholder activism development in common law and civil law countries and identifies features of these legal systems that create preconditions and obstacles for shareholder activism. Our findings show that tendencies of shareholder activism depend on the type of the legal system, but also vary within the countries that share the same legal system. Thus, we conclude that the type of legal system is not the chief determinant of shareholder activism. A comparative analysis of shareholder activism in Germany and Ukraine (civil law countries) and the USA and the UK (common law countries) shows that the system of domestic corporate regulation, development of the stock market, companies’ capitalization and corporate governance influence the development of shareholder activism in equal measure.

Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
International Context ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Penal State ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The rise in rates of imprisonment since the late 1970s is one of the most striking features of social policy. The USA and England and Wales have been the “leaders” in these developments. The rate of imprisonment doubled in the UK in the twenty years to 2015. This chapter will begin with a discussion of the historicity of mass incarceration and the penal state. It will examine the expansion of the use of imprisonment in England and Wales over the past thirty years. In contrast to the previous theoretically orientated chapters, this will focus on data such as the rates of imprisonment and the development of policy within this field. The chapter will also provide a comparative analysis that will place the development of the penal state in England and Wales within an international context.

scholarly journals Specifics of Future Border Protection Specialists’ Training in the USA and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Tetiana Tron
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Training System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Professional Requirements ◽  
Current Article

Abstract Nowadays the issue of border protection is vitally important for national security of every country to guarantee protection of citizens. In this regard, it is important to study positive experience of world practices in this field. The current article deals with the comparative analysis of the system of border protection specialists’ training in the United States and Ukraine. The article focuses on specifying learning methods, forms of border protection specialists’ training. Moreover, the issue of border protection specialists’ training within the framework of pedagogical theory and practice has been presented; main stages of development of the USA and Ukrainian border protection training system have been processed and presented; professional requirements of American and Ukrainian border protection specialists have been described and compared. Additionally, curriculum standards of physical, firearm, law, operational and communicative aspects of professional training in the field of border protection in the USA and Ukraine have been mentioned. Furthermore, the research investigates principles and specifics of future border protection specialist’ professional training with detailed description of the educational process in the USA and Ukraine. Great attention has also been paid to the specific forms, methods and strategies of professional border protection training. The comparative analysis of American and Ukrainian professional training system in the field of border protection has been conducted. Basing on criteria of different training aspects, the conducted analysis enables to state new possibilities of progressive American ideas in the field of border protection issues to be implemented into the practice of Ukrainian future border protection specialists’ training.

scholarly journals Results and perspectives on policing as part of the national security sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
pp. 411-421
Author(s):  
Oleg M. Reznik ◽  
Nadiia S. Andriichenko ◽  
Irina V. Zvozdetska ◽  
Volodymyr O. Zarosylo ◽  
Viktoriia I. Hryshko
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Police Performance ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The police are one of the actors involved in ensuring national security. Therefore, the relevance of this article stems from the need to ensure effective performance. The issue of studying the experience of countries in this field is relevant to find the best models to assess the activities of these structures, which will contribute to a better performance of tasks assigned to them by law - this is one of the tools to assess the performance of the police. The aim of the article was to investigate the peculiarities of police performance assessment, thereby identifying practices that can improve the assessment of police performance. The objective was achieved by using dogmatic, statistical, comparative legal methods and a system-structural approach. The authors revealed the peculiarities of police assessment in Ukraine, the USA, Canada, France and the UK. The focus is on the assessment of police performance based on the level of citizens' trust and statistical data. The conclusion is made that citizens' trust in the police is necessary for the effective performance of its tasks.

scholarly journals Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm N. MacDonald ◽  
Duncan Hunter ◽  
John P. O'Regan
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Semantic Prosody

This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were defined: one relating to a discourse of citizenship and community cohesion (2001–2006); and one relating to the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ discourse (2007–2011). Wordsmith Tools (Scott 2008) was used to investigate keywords and patterns of collocation. The results present themes emerging from a comparative analysis of the 100 strongest keywords in each sub-corpus; as well as a qualitative analysis of related patterns of the collocation, focusing in particular on features of connotation and semantic prosody.

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