Qui sont nos ennemis? Qui sont nos amis? La presse pakistanaise et ses perceptions des attitudes et politiques de quatre grandes puissance 1958-1965.

Utilizing content analysis methodology, this paper studies Pakistani press perceptions of external sources of threat and support covering the Period 1958-1965.From the literature on Pakistani foreign policy, seven specific hypotheses are extractedfor testing:1 - during the period 1958-1965, India was perceived to be the major threat toPakistan ;2 - the perception of India as the major threat increased sharply from 1962 onwards;3 - in 1959 China was perceived to be a greater threat to Pakistan than India was;4 - the Soviet Union was perceived to be the major threat in 1958, a significant butsecondary threat in 1959, the main threat again in 1960, and an insignificantthreat from 1961 onwards;5 - at no time during the period 1958-1965 was the United States perceived to be athreat to Pakistan;6 - the respective policies of China, the US.S.R., and the U.S. towards South Asia ingeneral and on the Kashmir issue in particular, played a major part in determiningPakistan's attitudes toward these states;7 - U.S. arms aid to India in 1962 resulted in a major Pakistani disillusionment withthe United States and this was accompanied by more positive Pakistani viewstoward the US.S.R. and China.Our data drawn from front page news stores and editorials appearing in a sample of the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, confirm in general terms hypotheses 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7, but fall to confirm hypotheses 3 and 4.Overall, the data point to the significance of the Sino-Indian border war in the fall of 1962 as a crucial turning point in Pakistan 's foreign policy alignments. Specifically, we see evidence of a turning away from the United States, combined with a movement toward China. Attitudes toward the Soviet Union were ambivalent

La presse et la politique étrangère canadienne

This article reports on the findings of what appears to be the first content analysis of all aspects of Canadian press coverage of Canadian foreign relations. Six major/newspapers were chosen on the basis of national significance and linguistic and regional considerations: the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Le Devoir (Montréal), La Presse (Montréal), the Ottawa Citizen, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun. During the period studied (the last quarter of 1982), these newspapers averaged nearly nine items per issue on Canadian foreign relations and relied predominantly on Canadian sources for their material. However, there was a relative lack of analytic coverage and only a limited number of items that adopted supportive or critical positions on the various issues in Canadian foreign policy. Commercial matters received both the most extensive and the most sophisticated treatment, while the reporting of political subjects was generally less detailed and often superficial. In terms of relationships, that with the United States was arguably the only one to receive adequate coverage, while from the standpoint of issues there were several that received insufficient attention, such an environmental problems in relations with the United States, Canadian concerns at the United Nations, and international developmental matters. One of the most notable differences in coverage among the papers studied was the variation found in the attention paid to the international role of Quebec, which received only scant attention in the English-language press but was the single most frequently coded theme in the Quebec newspapers. While analytic coverage was found to be more extensive and profound in the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir and La Presse than in the other three papers, the authors in general agree with De Montigny Marchand that Canadian newspapers are "an uncertain intellectual force in the definition and interpretation of Canadian foreign policy"

La presidencia y los medios

Dossier Desinformación. En este estudio se intenta describir la habilidad del Presidente Reagan para lograr que los medios de comunicación colectiva apoyen constantemente la ayuda militar a los Contras nicaraguenses -un factor importante en su estrategia- para derrocar al gobierno Sandinista que tomó el poder en Nicaragua el 19 de julio de 1979

Répertoire des universitaires et universités se spécialisant dans les études latino-américaines au Canada

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Introduction: thinking about Caribbean media worlds

This special issue brings together cultural studies of media with current themes in Caribbean studies and anthropology. The papers were part of an interdisciplinary conference panel focused upon Caribbean Media Worlds. At the outset, we wanted to demonstrate that there are several specific reasons why the Caribbean makes a particularly interesting case study for examining the cultural practices, relationships, micro-political encounters and identities that surround the distribution and use of media technologies. The collection here examines media in interaction with the world of which it is part — in this case, that world is imagined as `the Caribbean'. The main goal of this introduction is to contextualize the studies by presenting key ideas within Caribbean research as a backdrop against which the conceptual and analytic frameworks which emerge in the contributors' articles can be better understood