The Future of Global Competition
With todays social and geopolitical order in significant flux this project offers vital insight into the future global order by comparatively charting national media perceptions regarding the future of global competition, through the lens of Ontological Security (OS).
The authors employ a mixed-method approach to analyze 620 news articles from 47 Russian, Chinese, Venezuelan, and Iranian news sources over a five-year period (201419), quantitatively comparing the drivers of their visions while providing in-depth qualitative case studies for each nation. Not only do these narratives reveal how these four nations understand the current global order, but also point to their (in)flexibility and agentic capacity for reflection in adapting, even shaping the future order, and their identity-roles within it, around an economic and diplomatic battleground. The authors argue these narratives create trajectories with inertial effects grounded in their OS needs, providing enduring insights into their behavior and interests moving into the future.
The Future of Global Competition will help readers understand how influential nations typical aligned in opposition to the USA, envision the drivers of global competition and the make-up of the future international system. Those engaged in the study of media, global politics, international relations, and communication will find this book to be a critical source.
Robert S. Hinck is an assistant professor at Air University part of the US Air Forces educational system. He has previously co-authored Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election (2019). His expertise is in rhetoric, strategic narrative, and political communication.
Sara R. Kitsch is an assistant professor at Air University part of the US Air Forces educational system. Her research revolves around rhetorical theory and criticism, communication, strategic narratives, womens and gender studies, and citizenship. She has published articles in Communication Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
Asya Cooley is an assistant professor of Strategic Communications in the School of Media and Strategic Communications, at Oklahoma State University. Her research revolves around nonprofit communications and management, higher education management, and philanthropy.
Skye C. Cooley is an assistant professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State University. His research centers on Russian political communication, global media and digital democracy, as well as developing and testing platforms for civic deliberation online. In 2019 he was a co-author of Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election (2019).
Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
Edited by Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University and Laura Roselle, Elon University
International communication encompasses everything from one-to-one cross-cultural interactions to the global reach of a broad range of information and communications technologies and processes. Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society celebrates and embraces this depth and breadth. To completely understand communication, it must be studied in concert with many factors, since, most often, it is the foundational principle on which other subjects rest. This series provides a publishing space for scholarship in the expansive, yet intersecting, categories of communication and information processes and other disciplines.
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Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
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21. The Future of Global Competition
Ontological Security and Narratives in Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan Media
Robert S. Hinck, Asya Cooley, Skye C. Cooley, Sara Kitsch
In this vivid study, Robert Hinck, Asya Cooley, Skye Cooley and Sara Kitsch provide a mixed-methods illustration of the origins, and operation, of narratives in four crucial contemporary case settings. This well-organized, carefully and superbly written book provides a masterful blueprint for analyzing the dynamics of status, ontological security, and strategic narratives in a potentially emergent post-liberal world order.
Brent Steele, The University of Utah
First published 2022
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003197478