
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations
Al-Jazeera and Qatars Soft Power
- 145 pages
- English
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Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations
Al-Jazeera and Qatars Soft Power
About this book
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations 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 ā propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington's well-known thesis.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword Daya Thussu
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The QatarāAl-Jazeera Nexus
- Part II: Al-Jazeeraās Soft Power Strategies in the West
- Appendix A: The Clash-of-Civilizations Theory and Its Discontents
- Appendix B: Discourses of the āGlobal Public Sphereā and Its Critics
- Index