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The advent of television called for a more personal and understated presentation – brilliantly grasped by John F. Kennedy – and was more conducive than ever to the rapid takeover of public discourse and consciousness.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the political extremes has fed into mainstream political discourse.
Whatever many American policymakers may be saying in private, their public discourse almost invariably reflects an intention to remain the world’s dominant power – and specifically in Asia – in perpetuity.
Among them:Elections: these are confined to an Islamic discourse, and all candidates and parties must secure the imprimatur of the highest Islamic authority in the land before they can be listed on a ballot.
That is why temperature targets dominate the global climate discourse.
Moral claims for self-determination are justly raised in the case of the Palestinians, but they are entirely absent from the international discourse about Kurdistan.
So far, there is no case in history of non-Western modernization; the discourse on Asian values, initially started in Singapore, is basically a political discourse.
But if, as current indicators suggest, Europe is facing an economic slowdown, the pre-election discourse could change significantly.
To be sure, it is important to understand the discourse of those who are making war on societies – their own societies first and foremost.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
The subject is avoided in history books, evaded by diplomats, and forms no part of domestic political discourse.
After all, its dysfunction not only cheapens political discourse; it also delays essential legislative business.
The releases of Ba’asyir and publication of Playboy , however controversial, will not themselves alter this new discourse, but they offer an insightful glimpse into just how dramatically things are changing in Indonesia.
This is particularly important today, when public discourse in democracies is relentlessly demotic and academic work is increasingly specialized.
We have to reflect and introduce changes into our discourse and our actions.”
The consequences have been a deep crisis in relations with the Palestinians, a cooling of relations between Israel and its great strategic partner, the United States, and an internal climate of deep divisions, ethnic tension and a vulgar coarsening of almost all political discourse.
Meanwhile, each government, with its own style and political discourse, seeks to associate the state with the benefits of a globalization that, for the past few years, has been showing its generosity.
But while the discourse in Germany on resource-sharing has begun to shift, concrete changes will take time.
Racist discourse – tinged with anti-Western rhetoric that Najib has ignored – has reached fever pitch, with right-wing groups openly advocating intolerance and racial hatred.
Only bigots could not see that immigration benefits both hosts and migrants; so the task of political leadership was to keep such views out of the dominant discourse, and to facilitate integration or assimilation.
Such a discourse, if clearly articulated, would be understood and could be endorsed by many, if not by all.
To be sure, the boundaries of acceptable public discourse have been changing globally: Trump has shown that in the world’s oldest democracy, and people like Swamy exemplify it in the world’s largest.
For starters, there is a key inconsistency in the discourse of the EU (and other US trading partners).
By contrast, the younger Hu has narrowed the public space for political discourse that had opened up during the latter years of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, when market pressure was forcing media outlets to be more daring and wide-ranging.
Hu’s tightening of controls over political discourse and the media intensified with the publication in September 2004 of a list of “Top Fifty Public Intellectuals” in Southern Weekly.
By comparison with the late 1990’s, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.
As a result, various political groups associated with the Solidarity trade union movement have, since Communism's fall, aspired to represent the political right, confusing the terms of political discourse.
Indeed, a dangerous emotional discourse has emerged, reflecting – and feeding – the worst stereotypes of the “lazy South” and the “despotic North.”
Prince Naif bans the very word “reform” from public discourse, because it suggests that there is something wrong with the system; his preferred term is “development.”
Contrary to the expectations of transparency advocates, greater disclosure of government information does not make public discourse more rational and less paranoid.
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