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Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations

Al-Jazeera and Qatar’s Soft Power

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argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright despite Al-Jazeera’s billion-dollar investments designed to gain entrance into Western markets; it shows empirically that this rejection is similarly rooted in religious, cultural and national motives. This book asserts that the main outcome of Al-Jazeera’s activities is the promotion of religious and cultural conflicts. The network persistently portrays global events through the prism of conflicting religious and cultural values – propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington’s well-known thesis.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-2263-7 / 978-1433122637 / 9781433122637

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2016

Seiten: 145

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Thomas K. Nakayama
Autor(en): Tal Samuel-Azran

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