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Geopolitics has long been associated with material factors, but theories of international relations continue to evade questions about ecological degra...
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While some international marketing textbooks today devote at least a few pages to the public relations function of multinational firms, coverage remains limited and unstructured. To date, there has been no organizing framework to facilitate the classroom discussion of international public relations' strategies by objective. This paper presents a framework that analyzes the practices of international PR practitioners and sets forth recommendations regarding additional strategies that may prove useful or appropriate within the framework The proposed framework organizes international public relations activities based on their potential usefulness under the conditions of market entry, maintenance (once the company has entered the market), crisis management, and government PR. The organizing...
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Drawing on a montage of specific cases from diverse political landscapes that echo well beyond their specificity, this article examines border poetics...
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I. INTRODUCTION
[W]hat could be more exciting for an academic, practitioner, or judge, than the "global" legal enterprise that is now upon us? Wordw...
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If the original mission of theory was to simplify and clarify the world in order that we might better understand it, then it is clear that that mission has been perverted, if not abandoned, by a sizeable party of theoreticians. Similarly, if it was the purpose of quantitative method to lend reassuringly objective aspects of scientific truth to the conclusions of international study, then it would appear that that much of that purpose has been lost amid a blizzard of impenetrable numerology. International Relations scholarship which is not comprehensible to the moderately informed and intelligent reader/listener has no point; indeed, in some cases there is reason to doubt that it has retained its hold on genuine linguistic meaning. Unless scholars discipline themselves to writing in plai...
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"Are you a citizen of the United States or are you a citizen of the world?" professor and Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, a retired career diplomat from Pakis...
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DUBLIN, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Irish American University, an American university with a campus on Merrion Square in Dublin, today conferred Master of Arts in International Relations degrees on 14 distinguished graduates. The ceremony took place in the historic Oscar Wilde House where the well known Dublin solicitor and author, Dr. Gerald Kean, was the commencement speaker and was followed by a private reception at the Shelburne Hotel.
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Power is a fundamental concept in the social sciences and lies at the core of the practice of international politics. Despite its significance, power has been absent from the scholarly debate in International Relations for quite some time. The growing world-wide influence of the "normative power Europe " in conjunction with the inability of the U.S. to translate its material strength into desired political outcomes have put into question any conception of power based entirely on quantifiable material resources. More than anything else, the "paradox of American power" has raised profound questions about the nature of power in contemporary global politics. An enhanced understanding of power in the contemporary international and world society requires one to focus on the social aspects of ...
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOLDS A HEARING ON THE FISCAL YEAR 2009 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BUDGET
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM: SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND RESOURCES AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, EMERGING THREATS AND IN...