Global Trends: A Rhetorical Study of Global Trends and Forecasting Discourse (2014-2016)

Lead investigator: Distinguished Professor Ph-J Salazar

Summary:

The project aims at providing a better understanding of the rhetorical functioning of persuasive communication set in motion by global forecasting agencies tasked with trends reports that have a global influence. The rationale and motivation for the project is to show how global trends reports and forecasting shape, frame and direct the definition of human agency at the level of international politics. The project, in its novelty, should broaden knowledge in this area of strategic studies itself, in addition to expanding the field of rhetorical criticism applied to politics.