Books in the Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium series address intercultural, international, and global communication in civil or public society. The topics of the books encompass major cultural, regional, national, and international issues as seen through the perspective of communication and the media. They also extend to major societal topics having a broad communicative impact in the 20th and 21st centuries. The goal of the series is to stimulate and challenge thinking in these areas internationally and to give voice to the ideas of both well established and new contributors to the discussion.