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1361. No sympathy for Chavez: Venezuela's president in the media

Publication Date:
06-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Media Tenor International
Abstract:
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has difficulties in exporting his socialistic ideas to the region. The newspapers of seven Latin American countries have shown little sympathy towards his ideas in the past months, as has been shown by a new Media Tenor analysis of 21 leading newspapers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico and Peru (chart 1). Chavez's re-election generated positive headlines, but his leadership aspirations for the region as well as his announced renaissance of a new socialism of Latin American coinage (the “Bolivian Revolution”) were both met with skepticism. Some newspapers see Venezuela the brink of dictatorship, and the Mexican newspaper Reforma called Chavez a “tropical Mussolini”.
Topic:
International Relations, Mass Media, and Socialism/Marxism
Political Geography:
Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia

1362. Brazil with strong challenge ahead: Other BRIC countries enjoying stronger media support

Publication Date:
06-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Media Tenor International
Abstract:
Despite its size, both geographically and in terms of its population, Latin America plays a rather insignificant role in international television news. With Western media for the most part still reporting within traditional and existing parameters (East-West), countries falling outside of these parameters seem to only appear on television when they violate these set norms and expectations (as in the case of Iraq, Iran, North Korea) or if they confirm existing stereotypes, such as crime and violence in Africa. With Latin America hovering on the peripheral of these issues (except for the United States-Venezuelan \'relations\' matter), it is no surprise that Latin America attracts only marginal coverage on television news. Swiss and German television news reports dedicated only 3% of their total coverage in 2006 to Latin America, while South African, British and Arab media dedicated less than 2%. Only U.S. television, largely due to reporting on Cuba and Venezuela, dedicated a full 5% of its total coverage to the continent.
Topic:
International Relations, Politics, and Mass Media
Political Geography:
United States, South Africa, Cuba, Latin America, and Venezuela

1363. Cutting-Edge Knowledge of China's International Relations

Author:
Xu Xin
Publication Date:
09-2007
Content Type:
Journal Article
Journal:
The International Spectator
Institution:
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Abstract:
Review of: New directions in the study of China's foreign policy, edited by Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, Stanford University Press, 2006.
Topic:
International Relations and Foreign Policy
Political Geography:
China

1364. Security and Intelligence in U.S.-Mexico Relations

Author:
Luis Herrera-Lasso
Publication Date:
10-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
The Wilson Center
Abstract:
The relationship between Mexico and the United States has been defined by the countries' shared border, their economic interaction (which has been growing since the signing of NAFTA), and by their common geopolitical arena.
Topic:
International Relations, Security, Intelligence, and Regional Cooperation
Political Geography:
United States and Mexico

1365. Education in the U.S. - Mexico Relationship

Author:
Eduardo Andere
Publication Date:
10-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
The Wilson Center
Abstract:
There are four words that summarize the U.S. Mexico collaboration in the area of education: asymmetric, fragmented, aimless, and “institution-less”. This paper, drawing, from the recent history and policies in the education relationship will document this status of education in the bilateral relationship. The paper is organized in three sections. Section one refers to the U.S. – Mexico asymmetries in almost every single area of comparison from competitiveness to wellness and from education to research and development. The asymmetrical relationship (both, in sheer economic, competitiveness and wellness indicators on the one hand, and institutional governmental agencies, on the other) will be given as an assumption of the difficulties of forward bilateral collaboration in all areas including education and knowledge. Section two will depart from the asymmetrical institutional relationship and will refer to the overall bilateral education relationship between the two countries. The lack of an institutional framework and binational institutions in the educational collaborative realm will entice me to a third section of proposals for policy makers.
Topic:
International Relations, Education, and Regional Cooperation
Political Geography:
United States and Mexico

1366. Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View From Feminist Economics

Author:
Julie A. Nelson
Publication Date:
12-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University
Abstract:
A number of recent discussions about ethical issues in climate change, as engaged in by economists, have focused on the value of the parameter representing the rate of time preference within models of optimal growth. This essay examines many economists' antipathy to serious discussion of ethical matters, and suggests that the avoidance of questions of intergenerational equity is related to another set of value judgments concerning the quality and objectivity of economic practice. Using insights from feminist philosophy of science and research on high reliability organizations, this essay argues that a more ethically transparent, real-world-oriented, and flexible economic practice would lead to more strongly objective, reliable, and useful knowledge.
Topic:
International Relations, Climate Change, Economics, and Environment

1367. Institutional Proliferation and World Order: Is There Viscosity in Global Governance?

Author:
Daniel W. Drezner
Publication Date:
11-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Centre for International Peace and Security Studies
Abstract:
In recent years there has been a proliferation of international rules, laws and institutional forms in world politics. This has triggered attention to the role that forum-shopping, nested and overlapping institutions, and regime complexes play in shaping the patterns of global governance. A few policymakers, some international relations scholars, and many international law scholars posit that this trend will lead to more rule-based outcomes in world politics. This paper suggests a contrary position: institutional thickness has a paradoxical effect on global governance. After a certain point, proliferation shifts global governance structures from rule-based outcomes to power-based outcomes–because institutional proliferation can enhance the ability of great powers to engage in forum-shopping.
Topic:
International Relations, Globalization, Government, Health, Human Rights, International Law, and Markets
Political Geography:
America

1368. Current Trends in U.S. Study Abroad the Impact of Strategic Diversity Initiatives

Author:
Rajika Bhandari, Daniel Obst, and Sharon Witherell
Publication Date:
05-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Institute of International Education
Abstract:
To succeed and prosper in a global economy and interconnected world, U.S. students need international knowledge, intercultural communications skills, and global perspectives. This policy research paper will present the current trends in study abroad in the United States and will look at new funding initiatives and program models that have begun to strategically influence diversity.
Topic:
International Relations, Education, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:
United States

1369. Much Ado about Pluto? The 'Unity of the Legal Order of the European Union' Revisited

Author:
Christoph Herrmann
Publication Date:
02-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
European Research Papers Archive
Abstract:
The European Union is commonly described as a temple-like construction resting upon three pillars. Whereas the first pillar, Community law, constitutes a “new legal order” of supranational character, the second and third pillar are considered to be of intergovernmental kind, i.e. traditional public international law. However, some commentators have advocated a more integrated view, claiming the “unity of the legal order of the European Union”. The more recent case-law of the European courts has increasingly to deal with the relationship between the pillars as well as the legal nature of Union law. The present paper analyses this case-law and takes the opportunity to revisit the “unity thesis” as put forward in learned writings, the overall conclusion is that the claim of unity is poorly suited to solve interpretative questions that concern the aforementioned questions.
Topic:
International Relations, Development, and International Law
Political Geography:
Europe

1370. New Modes of Governance in the EU: Common Objectives versus National Preferences

Author:
Martin Rhodes and Manuele Citi
Publication Date:
01-2007
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
European Research Papers Archive
Abstract:
The emergence in the European Union of new modes of governance (NMG) such as the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has produced an enormous literature that falls into four broad categories: a theoretical approach seeks to explain why such methods emerged and locates them in existing theories of European integration, policy-making and institutional change; a strongly normative approach extols the nonhierarchical, deliberative virtues of NMG and 'soft' law and prioritizes the potential of the OMC as a font of 'social learning'; a more empirical approach assesses new modes in operation across different policy areas and countries; and a more critical approach assesses the claims made on the OMC's behalf as an effective instrument of policy making. Apart from our concern to critically review this literature, our aim is also to focus in on one of its greatest deficiencies: the absence, hitherto, of a comprehensive, multi-level framework for analysis, capable of specifying the conditions under which OMC practices are likely to produce a convergence of member state policies on common objectives. In doing so we also bring into our account a parallel literature – on policy diffusion and learning – that is frequently referred to by studies of the OMC and other new modes of governance but is rarely integrated systematically into their analysis.
Topic:
International Relations, Nationalism, and Politics
Political Geography:
Europe