%0 Book
%A Tal Samuel-Azran
%D 2016
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1528-6118
%@ 9781453917619
%T Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations
%B Al-Jazeera and Qatar’s Soft Power
%R 10.3726/b10476
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109637
%X Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright despite Al-Jazeera’s billion-dollar investments designed to gain entrance into Western markets; it shows empirically that this rejection is similarly rooted in religious, cultural and national motives. This book asserts that the main outcome of Al-Jazeera’s activities is the promotion of religious and cultural conflicts. The network persistently portrays global events through the prism of conflicting religious and cultural values – propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington’s well-known thesis.
%K Muslim world, Arab spring, Qatar, Intercultural communication, Globalization, Broadcasting network, Al-Jazeera
%G English