Intercultural Communication As A Clash Of Civilizations: Al-Jazeera And Qatar's Soft Power (Critical Intercultural Communication Studies)

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 - propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington's well-known thesis.

• | Author: Tal Samuel-Azran
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 145 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1433122634
• | ISBN-13: 9781433122637