BY REBECCA BRYANT By the time this article appears, the presidential election campaigns now in full swing in Cyprus should have resulted in a new president for the Republic. It is quite likely, according to many polls, that the new president will also be the old one. Tassos Papadopoulos, president since 2003, presided over an eventful [...]
BY SUSAN ALLEN NAN The rise of the network society has shaped both conflict and conflict resolution. Conflict between the global network of capital exchange and locally rooted meaning can be seen in many international conflicts today. Castells argues that many of today’s conflicts are protests (by Zapatistas, American militia, Aum Shinrikyo, al-Qaeda, and the [...]
BY REUBEN E. BRIGETY, II It isn’t every day that I find myself in northern Kenya visiting a camp with 150,000 Somali refugees, or hearing an American soldier talk about the strategic importance of vaccinating sheep in Djibouti as part of the Global War on Terror. But neither is it every day that, as a [...]
BY JEREMY RINKER The tension and excitement were palpable. It was October 2, 2006 and thousands of disaffected youth wagged their fists towards the sky from atop the numerous light posts and vehicles that dotted the divided thoroughfare. Crowds of revelers packed the entrance to the giant stupa which marks the hallowed grounds where, in [...]
BY NAYANTARA SHEORAN Advertising has traditionally been the machinery that has affected change in the thinking of people. Advertising in post-liberal India took on the task of creating consumers. This article originates from a conference presentation where a semiotic analysis was employed to examine the visuals in some Indian advertising campaigns, which aimed to affect [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India’s current growth rate of 8 percent has been attributed to the successful implementation of economic liberalization policies in 1991 that opened the economy to global corporations seeking to do business in India. These policies encouraged the formation of partnerships between domestic firms and global corporations, as well as the entry of [...]