Sovereignty's Continuing Importance: Traces of Trail Smelter in the International Law Governing Hazardous Waste Transport

Sovereignty's Continuing Importance: Traces of Trail Smelter in the International Law Governing Hazardous Waste Transport

ISBN

9780521126427 (pbk.)

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

New York, NY

Keywords

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ltd., Jurisdiction (International Law), Government Liability, Transboundary Pollution, United States Claims

Disciplines

International Law | Jurisdiction | Law

Comments

Bratspies, Rebecca and Russell Miller, eds. Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up opposing television channels and pour money in as fast as it hemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assimilation and shut down dissenting stations. Using original and extensive focus group research and new developments in cognitive theory, Ellen Mickiewicz unveils a profound mismatch between the complacent assumption of Russian leaders that the country will absorb their messages, and the viewers on the other side of the screen. This is the first book to reveal what the Russian audience really thinks of its news and the mental strategies they use to process it. The focus on ordinary people, rather than elites, makes a strong contribution to the study of post-communist societies and the individual’s relationship to the media.

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Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, KZ 6148 .T73 2010

Sovereignty's Continuing Importance: Traces of Trail Smelter in the International Law Governing Hazardous Waste Transport

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