United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Creating Norms for a Complex World

ISBN-13: 9780415491136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

J P SINGH

Opis

This global institutions book focuses on the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Oranization (UNESCO) who aim to promote international co-operation among over 150 member states in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

Spis treści

1. UNESCO's Organizational History and Structure  2. Prioritizing Education  3. Making Science  4. The Prominence of Culture  5. Debating Global Communication Orders  6. Reflections and Possibilities  

O autorze

J. P. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); International Cultural Policies and Power (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Negotiation and the Global Information Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); with James N. Rosenau, Information Technologies and Global Politics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002); and Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999).