Communication, Commerce and Power: The Political Economy of America and the Direct Broadcast Satellite, 1960-2000
Edward A. Comor
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hardcover. A history of US-based direct broadcast satellite developments that also challenges the popular notion that transnational rather than nation state-based forces are responsible for shaping the contemporary world order. Series: Macmillan International Political Economy S. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3; KCP; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
In this history of US-based direct broadcast satellite developments, the United States and other nation-states are shown to be the ultimate arbiters of their ongoing histories. In making this now unfashionable argument, Edward A. Comor directly challenges recent academic work that tends to privilege global processes over national, and argues that the contemporary world order is being shaped primarily by transnational rather than nation-state-based forces. In testing this orientation with empirical research on US foreign communication policy since 1960, Communication, Commerce and Power compels academics and policy makers to rethink commonplace assumptions about the characteristics and potentials of the contemporary ... Read more
In this history of US-based direct broadcast satellite developments, the United States and other nation-states are shown to be the ultimate arbiters of their ongoing histories. In making this now unfashionable argument, Edward A. Comor directly challenges recent academic work that tends to privilege global processes over national, and argues that the contemporary world order is being shaped primarily by transnational rather than nation-state-based forces. In testing this orientation with empirical research on US foreign communication policy since 1960, Communication, Commerce and Power compels academics and policy makers to rethink commonplace assumptions about the characteristics and potentials of the contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Series
Macmillan International Political Economy S.
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333688236
SKU
V9780333688236
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About Edward A. Comor
Edward A. Comor is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at the American University, Washington, DC.
Reviews for Communication, Commerce and Power: The Political Economy of America and the Direct Broadcast Satellite, 1960-2000
'It represents a completely new approach to disciplinary scholarship within the field of international communications that can only serve to give the field greater academic weight and integrity.' - Philip M. Taylor, University of Leeds 'The book provides a thorough examination of the role played by the US in the establishment of an international regime characterised by ... Read more