TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ampuja, Marko
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Four Moments of International Communication Research in the Cold War and Beyond
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
PY  - 2019
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2019.1633603
N2  - This article discusses the impact of the Cold War and its legacy on international communication research. Critically reconstructing the history of the Cold War in political-ideological terms, it demonstrates that this research area has been characterised by a battle between liberal internationalist theories and theories of imperialism, which has occurred in two stages. During the Cold War, Western liberal notions of modernisation were challenged by theories of media-cultural imperialism. The end of the Cold War led to a return of liberal notions in international communication research—though they appeared in a less Western-centric form—in association with globalisation theory. The article argues that with the demise of the post-Cold War globalisation zeitgeist and the return of major geopolitical conflicts, theories of “new imperialism”, which focus on the interplay between “capitalist” and “territorial” imperialism, offer a fruitful foundation for understanding the early twenty-first century international media and communication order.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -