Relaciones Internacionales – Comunicación Internacional

2 diciembre, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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Reporting on the MidEast (CFR Education)

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Dear Educator, 

Current events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are complex and rapidly evolving. Within the past week, the world saw a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and a surprise rebel offensive in Syria.

To help you navigate these topics in your classroom, we’re excited to share our new learning journey, Middle East & North Africa: The Essentials. 

Explore the resource

In this newsletter, we will explore three sections of the new collection that can provide essential context to the region’s challenges and answer your students’ questions, such as: 

We hope this collection serves as your go-to resource when news in the region breaks and can assist you in empowering your students to have thoughtful and informed discussions. 

Happy learning, CFR Education

1 diciembre, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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Requiem for an empire… (Alfred McCoy)

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By Alfred McCoy

Some 14 years ago, on Dec. 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that «the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come … in 2025, just 15 years from now.»

To make that forecast, the historian conducted what he called “a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends.” Starting with the global context, he argued that, «faced with a fading superpower,» China, India, Iran and Russia would all start to «provocatively challenge U.S. dominion over the oceans, space and cyberspace.» At home in the United States, domestic divisions would «widen into violent clashes and divisive debates. … Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal.» But, that historian concluded, «the world pays next to no attention as the American Century ends in silence.»

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Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of «In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.» His new book is «To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.»

 

30 noviembre, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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AI and journalism (Reuters Inst)

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What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news?

Executive Summary

Based on an online survey focused on understanding if and how people use generative artificial intelligence (AI), and what they think about its application in journalism and other areas of work and life across six countries (Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK, and the USA), we present the following findings.

Findings on the public’s use of generative AI

ChatGPT is by far the most widely recognised generative AI product – around 50% of the online population in the six countries surveyed have heard of it. It is also by far the most widely used generative AI tool in the six countries surveyed. That being said, frequent use of ChatGPT is rare, with just 1% using it on a daily basis in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the USA. Many of those who say they have used generative AI have used it just once or twice, and it is yet to become part of people’s routine internet use.

In more detail, we find:

  • While there is widespread awareness of generative AI overall, a sizable minority of the public – between 20% and 30% of the online population in the six countries surveyed – have not heard of any of the most popular AI tools.
  • In terms of use, ChatGPT is by far the most widely used generative AI tool in the six countries surveyed, two or three times more widespread than the next most widely used products, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
  • Younger people are much more likely to use generative AI products on a regular basis. Averaging across all six countries, 56% of 18–24s say they have used ChatGPT at least once, compared to 16% of those aged 55 and over.
  • Roughly equal proportions across six countries say that they have used generative AI for getting information (24%) as creating various kinds of media, including text but also audio, code, images, and video (28%).
  • Just 5% across the six countries covered say that they have used generative AI to get the latest news.

29 noviembre, 2024
por Felipe Sahagún
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On the horizon: The futures of IR (Cambridge University Press, 06 May 2024)

Martin Coward
Matthew Paterson,
Richard Devetak,
Carolina Moulin,
Nisha Shah
Maja Zehfuss  and
Andreja Zevnik

Abstract

This Special Issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of Review of International Studies. Since 1975, the Review has published over 200 issues and over 1300 articles. The journal has played a key role in shaping the discipline of International Relations (IR), leading, or critically intervening in, key debates. To celebrate 50 years of Review of International Studies, we have curated a Special Issue examining the challenges facing global politics for the next 50 years.

IR has regularly turned its attention backwards towards its historical origins. Instead, we look to the future. In this Introduction, we start by outlining four traditions of future-oriented thinking: positivist, realist prediction; planning, forecasting, and scenario-building; utopian dreams of an ideal political future; and prefigurative thinking in activist politics. From these traditions, we learn that thinking about the future is always thinking about the present. We then outline four themes in the Special Issue articles: How do we think about the future at all? How do we think about imperial pasts and the ongoing questions of colonization and racialization in the present? How will technological change mediate and generates geopolitical change? How are socioecological crises, and in particular climate change, increasingly shaping how we think about the future of global politics? Overall, these provide us with a diverse, stimulating, and thought-provoking set of essays about the future of global politics, as both discipline and set of empirical problems.

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