The Global Village Myth

Author : Patrick Porter
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161948

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According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar. As a result, they practice responses driven by fear: theories of falling dominoes, hysteria in place of sober debate, and an embrace of preemptive war to tame a chaotic world. Patrick Porter challenges these ideas. In The Global Village Myth, he disputes globalism's claims and the outcomes that so often waste blood and treasure in the pursuit of an unattainable "total" security. Porter reexamines the notion of the endangered global village by examining Al-Qaeda's global guerilla movement, military tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and drones and cyberwar, two technologies often used by globalists to support their views. His critique exposes the folly of disastrous wars and the loss of civil liberties resulting from the globalist enterprise. Showing that technology expands rather than shrinks strategic space, Porter offers an alternative outlook to lead policymakers toward more sensible responses—and a wiser, more sustainable grand strategy.

Author : Patrick Porter
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161924

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The Global Village Myth by Patrick Porter Pdf

Porter challenges the powerful ideology of "Globalism" that is widely subscribed to by the US national security community. Globalism entails visions of a perilous shrunken world in which security interests are interconnected almost without limit, exposing even powerful states to instant war. Globalism does not just describe the world, but prescribes expansive strategies to deal with it, portraying a fragile globe that the superpower must continually tame into order. Porter argues that this vision of the world has resulted in the US undertaking too many unnecessary military adventures and dangerous strategic overstretch. Distance and geography should be some of the factors that help the US separate the important from the unimportant in international relations. The US should also recognize that, despite the latest technologies, projecting power over great distances still incurs frictions and costs that set real limits on American power. Reviving an appreciation of distance and geography would lead to a more sensible and sustainable grand strategy.

Author : Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479856084

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Whose Global Village? by Ramesh Srinivasan Pdf

Technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected in an online community worldwide. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspectives of diverse cultures. Such collaboration can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins

Author : Dawn Hillier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134476749

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Childbirth in the Global Village by Dawn Hillier Pdf

Childbirth in the Global Village highlights and examines the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and to try to understand more clearly the interrelationship between globalisation, modernization, science, the medical

Author : Ranendra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9386582090

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Lords of the Global Village by Ranendra Pdf

'The Americas were generous enough to preserve the literatures and ruins of the Incas, the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Native Americans in a number of museums. But the self-proclaimed liberal and tolerant Indian culture had spared not even that much space for the Asurs. They existed only as vestiges of myths.' After a long period of unemployment, Master Sahib is appointed to a school for tribal girls in rural Jharkhand--on a remote plateau, near open bauxite mines. He has heard of the Asur tribe who live there--that they are primitive, crude giants, or perhaps even the demons of myth. Master Sahib settles into an uneasy routine, prejudiced against his neighbours and surroundings. But when Lalchan Asur, the village chief's son, appears in his room, battered and bloody, Master Sahib must perforce get involved with the community around him. As he makes friends--with Lalchan and his brothers, Rumjhum Babu, Doctor Ram Kumar, Lalita and Etwari--Master Sahib finds that the Asurs are desperately poor. He sees that they are being further impoverished by mine owners and opportunistic godmen, hungry to exploit the land and women. When the Asurs decide to strike against the mine owners, Master Sahib realizes that he is caught up in the age-old battle between the Asurs and the Devas--and that this time, the Devas are the Lords of global capital, remote from petty human concerns. Ranendra's masterful parable brings alive the real plight of tribal communities today, their very existence threatened by a nexus of corporate rapacity and the hunger for development. Lords of the Global Village, with its spare prose and memorable characters, is a legend for and of our times.

Author : Mayuri Odedra
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850924405

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Information Technology and Globalisation by Mayuri Odedra Pdf

This publication looks at the role of Information Technology (IT) on the Globalisation process and addresses its implications on developing countries (DCs). The 10 articles address various issues related to this, including: the impact of IT on MNCs and TNCs.

Author : George F. MacDonald,Stephen Alsford,R. A. J. Phillips,Canadian Museum of Civilization
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : The Museum
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0660107872

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A Museum for the Global Village by George F. MacDonald,Stephen Alsford,R. A. J. Phillips,Canadian Museum of Civilization Pdf

Author : Kathleen Dixon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739140789

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The Global Village Revisited by Kathleen Dixon Pdf

Cultural studies scholarship on the television talk show, especially the 'audience discussion' genre, was guardedly hopeful about its democratic or feminist potential. In this exciting new volume, Kathleen Dixon investigates the relationship between the talk genre and democracy, but through a new emphasis on art, broadly defined. The Global Village Revisited: Art, Politics, and Television Talk Shows explores three case studies from Belgium, Bulgaria, and the United States, and reveals how these cases interanimate to produces a new view of the talk show as a global phenomenon, and as a negotiation among the forces of late capitalism, the unnamed but still palpable audience, and the individual rhetors, artists, and technicians who make the shows. Dixon treats the globalization of media and culture as a dynamic process that yields different results according to time and place. While the way in which television talk shows serve democracy may be hard to define precisely, The Global Village Revisited demonstrates the importance and necessity of this question in cultural studies.

Author : Edward A. Comor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349249268

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The Global Political Economy of Communication by Edward A. Comor Pdf

This collection examines the theoretical, analytical and political implications of global developments involving telecommunications and related technologies. The book's contributors - from fields such as economics, political science and communication studies - relate research on the political economy of communication with the work of international political economy scholars. The book stimulates cross-disciplinary debates among readers in these and other areas in order to, first, critically evaluate recent global developments involving communications and, second, to encourage the development of a more holistic and inclusive approach to these and related issues.

Author : Dr. Yash Paul Soni
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524597863

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Global Village and the Economy by Dr. Yash Paul Soni Pdf

No, time has not ceased and space has not vanished, but life does seem to be moving rapidly that way. Telecommunications, satellites, computers, and fiber optics taken together are halving the cost of processing, storing, and transmitting information every eighteen months. The global village even has its own market square in the shape of the internet—a forum for commerce, information, entertainment, and personal interaction that makes previously undreamed of access to information available almost instantly and at extraordinarily low cost. Estimates suggest that 250 million people around the world use the internet already, with the number rising every day. Global Village is not only the internet and telecommunications, but it is also the more traditional fare of economists—trade in goods and trade in assets. The theoretical case for free trade is that it permits countries to concentrate on activities in which they enjoy comparative advantage and subjects firms to the healthy discipline of foreign competition. This means higher productivity and increased living standards while consumers enjoy access to a wider variety of goods and services at lower cost. This is true not only in theory, but it is true also in practice. Our post–World War II prosperity is based in large part on the rapid expansion of international trade in goods and services, which year after year has grown more rapidly than production. The theoretical argument for the free movement of capital is essentially the same as the argument for free trade in goods: Money can be channeled to its most profitable uses worldwide, financing productive investment opportunities even where domestic savings are scarce. However, the recent crises have made that a more controversial proposition. Scholars argue that academic publications promote myths like “Globalization leads to one healthy world culture,” “Globalization brings prosperity to person and planet,” or “Global markets spread naturally.” They argue that globalization ideals represent primarily Westernized perspectives. They further assert that management educators have given little thought to the fact that not everyone wants to be a member of a global village. These experts argue that it is important for scholars and citizens to balance unbridled enthusiasm for capitalism with evidence of its results. They call for an open and egalitarian dialogue among those who promote globalization and those who believe it has negative consequences.

Author : Geraldine E. Hynes,Jennifer R. Veltsos
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781506365107

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Managerial Communication by Geraldine E. Hynes,Jennifer R. Veltsos Pdf

A Practical, Strategic Approach to Managerial Communication Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications focuses on communication skills and strategies that managers need to be successful in today’s workplace. Known for its holistic overview of communication, solid research base, and focus on managerial competencies, this text continues to be the market leader in the field. In the Seventh Edition, author Geraldine E. Hynes and new co-author Jennifer R. Veltsos preserve the book’s strategic perspective and include new updates to reflect the modern workplace. The new edition adds a chapter on visual communication that explains how to design documents, memorable presentations, and impactful graphics. New coverage of virtual teams, virtual presentations, and online communication help students avoid common pitfalls when using technology.

Author : David B. Audretsch,Heike Grimm,Charles W. Wessner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387234755

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Local Heroes in the Global Village by David B. Audretsch,Heike Grimm,Charles W. Wessner Pdf

Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world. Local Heroes in the Global Village introduces public policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on a comparative, primarily German-American level. The book contributes to the debate what role public policies play in stimulating national and regional economic growth. With a better understanding of the complexity and variety of existent entrepreneurship policies in the U.S. and Germany the reader of this volume will be able to formulate best practice, hands-on strategies which aim to promote nations as well as regions in an "entrepreneurial economy".

Author : Thomas Waldman
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529207002

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Vicarious Warfare by Thomas Waldman Pdf

This compelling account charts the historical emergence of vicarious warfare and its contemporary prominence. It contrasts its tactical advantages with its hidden costs and potential to cause significant strategic harm.

Author : Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136951190

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The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations by Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand Pdf

While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world? Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority countries, and call for a renewed critical attitude towards it. By analysing a process of elaboration of this myth that took place in academic books, arts and media, comics and Hollywood films, they show that the clash of civilizations has become a cognitive scheme through which people look at the world, a practical image on the basis of which they act on it, as well as a drama which mobilizes passions and emotions. Written in a concise and accessible way, this book is a timely and valuable contribution to the academic literature, and more generally, to the public debate. As such, it will be an important reference for scholars and students of political science, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, Middle Eastern politics and Islam.

Author : Tomasz Jacheć
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781040016572

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The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture by Tomasz Jacheć Pdf

This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. Drawing on work in sport studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, business, and media, this book helps us to understand how myths are made in modern society and highlights the importance of myths in a ‘post‐truth’ world. It unpacks the underlying ‘monomythical’ structure of the Jordan myth, including the universality of the ‘hero’s journey’, and explores those features that are inherently American but that also carried Jordan to the status of a global superstar. This book traces the contours of his career and looks at how the intersection of commercial interests, media narratives, and supreme athletic talent, in a particular social, political, and historical context, generated a myth that continues to resonate today, long after the end of Jordan’s playing career. Drawing on original research and adding new theoretical depth to our understanding of Michael Jordan’s place in popular culture, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between sport and wider society.