Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse

by Majid Tehranian

Charts a conceptual framework for understanding emerging patterns of global politics and communication. Tehranian (international communications, U. of Hawaii at Manoa) captures a wide range of discourses on the contradictory processes of globalism and its nemesis in equally powerful localist, nationalist, regionalist, feminist, environmentalist, and spiritualist trends. He considers informatic imperialism, the historical transition from premodern to modern societies and its corresponding evolutionary processes, the rise of postcolonial national elites, "pancapitalism," and the rise of cultural and political resistance against global hegemonies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

212 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Professor of International Communication at the University of Hawaii.