Global communication & international relations

Author(s)

• Frederick, Howard H.

Bibliographic Information

Global communication & international relations

Howard H. Frederick

Harcourt Brace College Pub., c1993

Note

Incliudes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work is intended as a text for courses on international relations, world politics or peace studies in departments of political science or communications. It treats international communication in an international relations context and discusses how the modern media face the challenge of promoting peace, building confidence among nations and peoples and strengthening understanding. Accelerated by the rapid advances in electronic technologies, global information networks have become central to international relations.

Table of Contents

• A preview
• The history of long-distance communication
• A world of communication
• The channels of global communication. The dimensions of communication. Communication, information and "new world orders"
• Contending theories of global communication. Communication in war and peace. International communication and information law
• Global communication as we enter the 21st century.

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Details

• NCID: BA41600603
• ISBN:
  • 0534193447
• LCCN: 92004890
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Fort Worth
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 287 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JX1395
  • DC20 : 327.1/7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communication in international relations