Comparing Media from Around the World
Author: Robert McKenzi
Comparing Media from Around the World discusses the fundamental elements of media systems and shows how they are used in eight sample countries (France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, México, China, Ghana, and Lebanon). Unlike other texts, it is organized according to media elements, with comparative discussions of all eight countries within each chapter. This helps students make connections and comparisons between the countries and allows them to apply the concepts to other countries not discussed in the text.
Features
- Each chapter discusses a single element of a media system (for example, financing of media) and compares it across media systems in eight countries, allowing students to make comparisons of countries within each chapter.
- Photos of media from eight countries, most taken specifically for this text, provide examples of newspapers, radio listings, television shows, Web sites, and more, helping students see how media systems operate in other countries.
- Five “Primer” questions begin each chapter, helping students establish their own baseline of knowledge about the subject of the chapter and prime their curiosity.
- An accessible writing style with many clear examples makes the material comprehensible and interesting to students.
Praise for Comparing Media from Around the World
“This book effectively combines comparative systems analysis and rhetorical understanding in a thoughtful and engaging examination of eight representative national media systems. It is clearly written, immediately engaging and especially relevant under conditions ofglobalization.”
—Harry W. Haines, Trinity University
“There is currently nothing like this kind of in-depth, cross-comparative analysis available in the textbook literature, and therefore the author’s work makes an important contribution. It’s clear this scholar has a nuanced and extensive knowledge of the field of global and international communication, and that he understands the complexities of global communication along its economic, political, and cultural dimensions.”
—John L. Sullivan, Muhlenberg College
Readings in International Relations
Author: Jon C Pevehous
Readings in International Relations pairs writings on international relations theory with writings on current events to help students explore the relationship between concept and application. Covering the key topics discussed in many international relations courses, this text offers generous excerpts of classic and contemporary theory readings followed by real world examples that support or challenge them. Designed to provide students with a more relevant and critical introduction to the field’s original scholarship, Readings in International Relations not only features broad theoretical and topical diversity, it demonstrates how the field explains and is informed by headlines in the news.
Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1. THE GLOBALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSTheory: Stephen Walt, “One World, Many Theories”
Application: Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, “Globalization: What’s new? What’s Not? (And So What?)”
CHAPTER 2. POWER POLITICS
Theory: Hans Morgenthau, Chapter 1 from Politics Among Nations
Application: Michael J. Mazarr, “George W. Bush, idealist”
CHAPTER 3. ALTERNATIVES TO POWER POLITICS
Theory: Bruce Russett and John Oneal, “International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Cycles”
Application: Saikiko Fukuda-Parr, “Gender, Globalization and New Threats to Human Security”
CHAPTER 4. FOREIGN POLICY
Theory: Graham Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis”
Application: Howard J. Wiarda, “Beyond the Pale: the Bureaucratic Politics of United States Policy in Mexico”
CHAPTER 5. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
Theory: Barry Posen, “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict”
Application: StephenBiddle, “Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon”
CHAPTER 6. MILITARY FORCE AND TERRORISM
Theory: Andrea Kurth Cronin, “Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism”
Application: Deborah Avant, “The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq”
CHAPTER 7. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, LAW, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Theory: Richard Steinberg and Jonathan Zasloff, “Power and International Law”
Application: Scott Straus, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate”
CHAPTER 8. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Theory: Robert Gilpin, “Three Ideologies of international Political Economy”
Application: Jennifer Clapp, “WTO Agriculture Negotiations: Implications for the Global South”
CHAPTER 9. MONEY AND BUSINESS
Theory: Theodore Cohn, “International Monetary Relations”
Application: Dennis Rondinelli, “Transnational Corporations: International Citizens or New Sovereigns?”
CHAPTER 10. INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION
Theory: Ernst B. Haas, “Functionalism”
Application: Andrew Moravcsik, “A Too Perfect Union? Why Europe Said No”
CHAPTER 11. ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION
Theory: Thomas homer-Dixon, “On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict”
Application: Nicholas Eberstadt, “Russia, the Sick Man of Europe”
CHAPTER 12. THE NORTH-SOUTH GAP
Theory: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “Dependent Capitalist Development in Latin America”
Application: Stephan Klasen, “Bridging the Gender Gap To Promote Economic and Social Development”
CHAPTER 13. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Theory: Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian, “How to Help Poor Countries”
Application: Ngaire Woods, “The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid”
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