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An Avoidable Dependency? Russian Gas and German Complacency in the History of East–West Energy Relations
How dependent were Germany and the European Union as a whole on Russian gas, and what lines can be traced in the historical development of energy...
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Chinese Foreign Relations 1857–1895
We are now going to speak of Chinese foreign relations between the treaty settlement of 1860 and the end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895....
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The Mass Media and Cultural Change
The power of the media in society cannot be underestimated and the demand for new information, especially in the twenty-first century, has given the...
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Alternative Media and the Theoretical Frameworks
This chapter presents a literary review and theoretical framework. It defines key concepts such as independent civil society and alternative media,...
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Digital Testimony and Social Media
In the 1990s Stuart Hall described the “cultural revolution” of the historically silenced “coming into representation” while Nancy Fraser defined...
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Media Environment in Taiwan from the 1950s to 2000
This chapter provides an extensive overview of Taiwan’s media environment, including the political and media system developments in Taiwan. It...
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Memories and Media: Concepts and Practical Dimensions
In order to understand how the Brazilian dictatorship became an unsettled and disputed issue, it is essential to reflect on processes and mechanisms...
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Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations
In the last three decades, historians of the “U.S. in the World” have taken two methodological turns—the international and transnational turns—that...
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The Main Alternative Media in the Martial Law Period of Taiwan
This chapter explores the emergence of Taiwan’s first alternative media and their significant contribution to sha** independent cultural, social,...
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India-Malaysia Relations: Strategic Engagement in the Context of the Act East Policy
The chapter examines the trajectory of Malaysia-India relations by analysing some of the key issues in bilateral relations, particularly in the last...
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Peace Actions and Mainstream Media: Framing Nuclear Disarmament Protests in Welfare Sweden
This chapter investigates how reports in Swedish mainstream media framed the 1980s peace movement collective actions in Sweden. By revisiting press...
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Connecting Neighbours Through Ages: India’s Relations with South and South East Asia
Connectivity is a computer buzzword that refers to a programme or device's ability to link with other programmes and devices. To us, it is a...
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Interdependence vs. Geopolitics: Securitization and Partial Recoupling of Sino-American Relations
Economic interdependence is traditionally viewed as essential to peace and cooperation in international relations. However, in an era of rising...
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Images of Mary I in Modern Spanish Media
Although Mary I was a pivotal figure in Spain’s history, she is still a largely unknown character in contemporary Spain. This article explores the...
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Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power—Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
In the 1990s, the subfield of U.S. diplomatic history faced a crisis. By the Cold War’s end, social and cultural history stood at the vanguard of the...
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Covid-19, Islam and Digital Media in Côte d’Ivoire: Response Measures and Reinvention of Religious Practices
This chapter evaluates how measures of confinement imposed by the government and adapted by Muslim communities generated new forms of Islamic...
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African Women and the Mass Media
The discourse on African women and the mass media is both multifaceted and multidimensional. On one hand, the term “African Women” is such a...
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Media Representations of the Australian Panther
In Chap. 8 the Australian media coverage of the Australian Black Power and Black Panther Party will be...
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The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress
The aim of this work is to present the thesis “On the Ontogenetic Evolution of the Human Embryo in its Relations with Phylogenesis,” by Affonso...
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Women, Social Media, and Culture in Africa
This chapter focuses on the use of social media by African women to speak out on social injustices, women empowerment, and traditional gender norms...