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Pluim, Gary W. J.; Jorgenson, Shelane R. – Intercultural Education, 2012
Despite the increasing popularity and appeal of youth volunteer abroad (YVA) programmes, powerful critiques are emerging. While these programmes tend to promise much in the way of global ethics and global citizenship in youth participants, they often neglect to seriously interrogate the one-way movement of people from the centre to the periphery…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Ethics
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Nelles, Wayne – Comparative Education, 2008
Little research has examined public diplomacy as a comparative education issue, particularly regarding social-psychological, economic and political fears or personal and national insecurities. This paper discusses American public diplomacy as a mostly Cold War strategy adapted to post-9/11 national security interests, fears and desires. It further…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, National Security, Comparative Education, War
Doran, Charles, F.; Tang, Puay – 1990
This document examines the historical, political and geographical status of Canada, its distribution of power, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989, and Canada's relations with the United States. The Meech Lake accord, a proposal designed to establish Quebec more firmly under the constitutional umbrella by granting the province distinct…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Global Approach