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EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL MEDIA and CIVIC DISCOURSE
PORTFOLIO
The world is experiencing an unprecedented contestation of new economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Accelerating technological advances, knowledge transfers, and the blurring of traditional boundaries.
More than 30,000 non-government organizations, international agencies, and transnational corporations have created a new a global civil society organized by religion, ethnicity, race, or political orientation.
Global Affairs & Policymaking Portfolio addresses issues including:
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Transnational media conglomerates & corporate control of communication
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Communication policies
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Architecture of global communication, including governance and ownership
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Futures of mass media/journalism
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Access to communication technology
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Global advertising & marketing
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Information challenges to state power
Global Governance and Policymaking
Strengthening Role of Data in Global Policymaking
Independent Evaluation Group
The Independent Evaluation Group gathered leaders from the World Bank Group, OECD, and AidData, to share perspectives and share ways to strengthen data production for development and policymaking and to overcome problems of underfunding, under sharing and partnerships.
Decision-making in public policy demands political consensus. Data nourishes debate and informs the general public, which then holds politicians accountable. Unfortunately, there are chronic problems with funding and sharing data; especially in cases where some governments don't want certain data to be made public.
End of a Free and Open Internet? The Global Implications of Repealing US Net Neutrality
Consumers International
Consumer International's Digital Advocacy Manager Renate Samson explains why this controversial decision to end net neutrality would remove the classification of broadband as a telecommunications service governed by Title II of the Telecommunications Act, which gives the FCC broad powers to regulate internet service providers. The most immediate effect would be to eliminate a 2015 decision that requires internet providers to treat all web traffic uniformly, prohibiting them from throttling web traffic to specific sites or charging websites extra fees.
Many countries already have laws or regulations in place protecting net neutrality and there have been high profile, consumer and citizen led campaigns to make sure they are upheld, such as in India. However, some do not and this change in US law could slow down or reverse the progress that has been made to protect a free internet internationally.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
CFP: Globalization and De-Globalization, Shifts of Power and Wealth
The 2019 Business History Conference inCartagena, ColombiaMarch 14 – 16, 2019will focus on “Globalization and De- Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth” and the recent populist and economic nationalist trends around the world. To submit a proposal go to conference website and click on the link Submit a Paper/Panel Proposal. The deadline for receipt of all paper and panel proposals is 1 October 2018.
CFP: Bridging Divides: Third Conference of the New Diplomatic History Network
New Diplomatic History Network is seeking proposals exploring the study of diplomacy from theoretical, emotional, sensory, artistic, spatial and temporal perspectives for a conference scheduled for 24-26 October 2018 at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in the Netherlands. Deadline for an abstract of 500-word (max.) synopsis to NewDH3@gmail.com by March 1, 2018
CFP: Nationalism and International Order
An international conference hosted at the Leiden University at The Netherlands, November 21-23, 2018 will explore a systematic, comparative explanation of how various IR theories have dealt with the issue of nationalism and recent major synoptic treatments of both nationalism and of IR theory more broadly do not explicitly discuss their interrelationship. Papers can be categorized as belonging in one of three sections: theory, themes and cases. Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2018 and should be submitted to nationalismconf@gmail.com. For more information.
RECOMMENDED READING
BOOK: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow’s War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence describes an militarization of US foreign policy, with the Pentagon and CIA assuming roles once reserved for diplomats and aid-workers. The changes to foreign policy means diplomats no longer represent the US’s most delicate bilateral relationships, but soldiers and spies.
ARTICLE: Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Journal of European Public Policy
As transnational co-operation increases international public administrations for global policy-making are neither empirically nor theoretically well understood. Linking policy scope and policy type to differentiate between the various aims and levels of potential IPA influence facilitates study patterns of IPA influence.
BOOK: NGOs and Global Trade: Non-state Voices in EU Trade Policymaking
Eric Hannah addresses how the gains from trade are distributed unevenly and mitigate against social values, health, and development, NGOs are widely touted as our best hope for redressing these conditions. Are they?