International Journal on World Peace articles from December 2000

International Journal on World Peace archives from December 2000

THE GLOBALIZATION OF HOLLYWOOD.(global aesthetic is a reality)
December 1, 2000... Brazil, Hong Kong, and other centers of international television and film production have joined with the United States in forming a global Hollywood media aesthetic in the scramble for audiences. It means engaging audiences with media texts...

RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL LEGITIMACY IN ASIA: GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT.
December 1, 2000... This article explores legitimacy in the East Asian context and explores how the ancien regime will become weaker unless it adopts a more varied approach to creating legitimacy. Since the end of World War II, East Asian developmental states...

IRAN'S STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY.
December 1, 2000... A number of scholars have argued that certain belief systems and cultures are inimical to the development or introduction of democracy, and that a prerequisite to the establishment of democratic regimes is a change in culture or belief system....

THE UNITED STATES ELECTION.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The American Presidential election finally yielded a result several weeks after the polling was completed. Following bitterly disputed election results in Florida, and more than a month after the election, Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic...

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT.
December 1, 2000... The failure of the Camp David summit in July, sponsored by President Clinton in an effort to bring about a peace accord between the two adversaries before he leaves office in January, has led to a series of provocative events which may...

NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR 2000 GOES TO SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT.(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
December 1, 2000... The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2000 to Kim Dae Jung for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular. The...

VANISHING BORDERS: PROTECTING THE PLANET IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Hilary French New York: W.W Norton & Company, 2000 ix + 257, pbk., $13.95 Vanishing Borders must be appraised within at least three contexts. The first is as a publication of the Worldwatch Institute, a nonprofit policy research...

NEW MARKETS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES? ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN A CHANGING WORLD.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham (Eds). Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C., 2000 313 pages with references and index, $24.95 Birdsall and Graham present eleven articles that address the impact of economic and political...

MILITARY-CIVILIAN INTERACTIONS: INTERVENING IN HUMANITARIAN CRISES.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Thomas G. Weiss New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 Xix + 281 pages, paper, $19.95 This valuable book is a sober analysis by a well-regarded scholar with wide UN experience, and a former director of the International Peace...

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: DYNAMICS, PROCESS, AND STRUCTURE.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Ho-Won Jeong (Ed.) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1999 221pp., cloth, $79.95 As the psychologist, Ronald Fisher, notes in his important essay Social-Psychological Processes in Interactive Conflict Analysis and...