Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication: (Communication and Society)

Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. As an intersection between communication and international relations, it bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. One central theme that emerges in the book is the continuity of asymmetries in power relations that can be traced back to 19th-century European imperialism, manifested in its various incarnations from ‘liberal’ to ‘neo-liberal’, to ‘digital’ imperialism. The book includes a discussion of the post–Cold War US-led transformation of the hardware and software of global communication and how it has been challenged by the ‘rise of the rest’, especially China. Other key issues covered include the geopolitics of image wars, weaponization of information and the visibility of discourses emanating from outside the Euro-Atlantic zone. The ideas and arguments advanced here privilege a reading of geopolitical processes and examples from the perspective of the global South. Written by a leading scholar of global communication, this comprehensive and transdisciplinary study adopts a holistic approach and will be of interest to the global community of scholars, researchers and commentators in communication and international relations, among other fields.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: geopolitics and global communication 1. Communication, globalization and empire: legacies and leverages 2. Globalization of communication – constructing and servicing a neo-liberal world 3. Digital Democracy vs. Digital Imperialism 4. Geopolitics of communicating conflict: wars and image wars 5. Weaponizing global communication: cyberwars, surveillance and spying 6. Emerging contours of a new global communication order

About the Author :
Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the Hong Kong Baptist University and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Author or editor of 20 books, he was Inaugural Disney Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Prior to that, for many years he was Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, he has been since 2005 the managing editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.

Review :
"Extensively researched and cogently argued, this first book-length study of the changing dynamics of global communication and international politics, by a leading scholar in the field, bridges the existing gap between international relations and international communication. A must read." Nancy Snow, author of Propaganda, Inc. and Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11. "It is far from easy to bring together two very different academic fields – global communication and international relations. Daya Thussu does it brilliantly with this book. Through his critical approach, historically informed, he explores in depth the many ways in which the rise of large non-Western countries in the international scene has resulted in a series of major changes in the geopolitics of global communication." Tristan Mattelart, professor at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. "Once again, Daya Thussu is leading the field in identifying and making sense of the shifting flows, channels, and structures of global communication, with a discerning eye for the 'rise of the rest' and its accompanying geopolitical challenges." Yu Hong, Professor, Zhejiang University, China.