Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: For a long time, the process of ‘teacher explaining—students listening—assignment grading’ has been the traditional Chinese teaching pattern, which results in the lack of practical research ability of the students. So the universities in China are forced to start reforming. With the help of PISA, CFAU is successful obtaining funds to introduce into advanced teaching methods and experienced instructors from USA. The special method is called ‘active learning method’, which makes the students fully involved in the teaching and learning process and materials, so could make great difference from the traditional ones. On the basis of the ‘active learning method’, we are developing three different forms of Active Teaching, named history-oriented teaching, interaction-oriented teaching and theory-oriented teaching. They are bring about great effects in the reform of teaching International Relations in China.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The case of wrongly-accused nuclear code physicist Wen Ho Lee, pronounced to be one of the most damaging spies in national history by the U.S. government, is both shocking and informative in a number of respects illustrating the operation of the U.S National Security State and the continued change and anxiety in ethnic composition of the U.S. population. The manufacture of the case itself, and the speed and hysteria with which it caught on, are indicative of significant forces (in terms of bureaucratic and political inertia) and of nationalistic and xenophobic attitudes prevalent in U.S. society. While the history and national narrative of the United States is centered around immigration and migration, and in terms of current policy the U.S remains a major country of immigration, there is nonetheless a strong isolationist and eurocentric contingent in U.S. political and cultural life which hearkens to the Aryan dream of a white fortress America. Hence the controversy and the blunders surrounding Wen Ho Lee are not only about the institutionalized paranoia and the bureaucratic operation of the U.S. national security organizations, they are also centrally about the ethnic self-image of the country, and about the de facto status of the U.S. population versus the representational and ideological narrative of Americanness, which only partially and poorly pays heed to this de facto situation.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Recent work by scholars associated with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project has emphasized the importance of Philadelphia (as both a place and the embodiment of constitutional ideas) for intellectuals from various Latin American countries in the early nineteenth century.

Latin American exiles published dozens of books in the city in the 1810s and 1820s, often debating constitutional questions and the future of Latin America's independence movements. Among the books published in "la famosa Filadelfia" were two volumes by the Peruvian lawyer and statesman Manuel Lorenzo Vidaurre titled Cartas Americanas, Políticas y Morales. The Cartas present some of Vidaurre's thoughts on political and penal matters, but they also include a running commentary about an affair that he had carried on in his native Peru.

"Si, yo soy el criminal, el delincuente. Yo debi ser el custodio de tu inocencia, y como hambriento lobo te sacriqué (sic) á mi irracional apetito," Vidaurre tells his unnamed lover. What are we to make of this intrusion of a narrative about an affair into a book and a body of publications that, for the most part, focus on politics? In Vidaurre's book, his emotional life and political participation are inseparable. In this paper I offer a reading of Vidaurre's Filadelfia affair to raise questions about how we as scholars can consider questions about emotions in recovering a literary and print culture tradition that has focused largely on political and social questions.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Although television and newspaper public affairs use are two of the foundation variables employed in the empirical study of mass communication, there is still a great deal that media scholars have yet to understand about the true relationship that exists between these forms of media use. This study posits and tests for a mutually reinforcing positive reciprocal relationship between television and newspaper public affairs use. Combined 1992, 1996, and 2000 American National Election Study (ANES) survey data (N = 6006) are used to test for this relationship via Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A simultaneous positive reciprocal relationship is found to exist between these two forms of public affairs media use, providing evidence to a lingering question that has been often assumed but never directly tested. Ramifications of this finding for studies analyzing both forms of public affairs media use are outlined.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This study examines the relationship among the agendas of the president, the mass media, and the public regarding the foreign policy issue in the United States from January 1989 to December 1996. ARIMA time-series analysis is used in an attempt to assess which factors drive measured public opinion regarding foreign policy. Most important problem survey results from various polling organizations are aggregated into a series of 96 monthly time points to measure the public agenda. The media agenda is developed from a content analysis of the foreign policy issue in the evening news broadcasts of the three major television networks and The New York Times. The presidential agenda is developed from a similar analysis of the Public Papers of the Presidents. Results indicate support for a bidirectional, or two-way relationship between the President and public opinion. Little support was found for a one-way relationship between the media agenda and the President.