Global Warming s Upside Down Narrative

Some communities rely more than others on the oral or storytelling tradition.

It was more like an exercise, so I had to decide what emotional and narrative aspects I was going to emphasize in only four pages.

Great powers try to use culture and narrative to create soft power that promotes their advantage, but they do not always understand how to do it. Critics in the United States complain that the over militarization of foreign policy undercuts its credibility.

We are right, they are left we think this, they think that condensed narratives fit easily on a newspaper s front page or into the tighter constraints of broadcast journalism.

A convergence of interests and a profoundly emotional attitude to Israel s story and to the Jewish narrative since the Holocaust have been the motive forces behind what is perhaps one of the most intriguing alliances in international relations.

Instead, it is Europe s lack of a vision and narrative for the future with which it could address issues like chronic unemployment, capital flight, and the ever tightening grip of austerity that keeps people awake at night, and that fosters populism, dismay, and internal disarray.