Global Telecom Talks
Author : Ben Petrazzini
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881322309
Author : Ben Petrazzini
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881322309
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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
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Author : Susan Crawford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300167377
Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.
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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
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Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
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Author : Joseph N. Pelton
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Artificial satellites in telecommunication
ISBN : 9780959419214
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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
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Author : James N. Rosenau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0791489450
Returning to the fundamentals of political science, namely power and governance, this book studies the relationship between information technologies and global politics. Key issue-areas are carefully examined: security (including information warfare and terrorism); global consumption and production; international telecommunications; culture and identity formation; human rights; humanitarian assistance; the environment; and biotechnology. Each demonstrates the validity of the view now prevalent within international relations research—the shifting of power and the locus of authority away from the state. Three major conclusions are offered. First, the nation-state must now confront, support, or coexist with other international actors: non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations; multinational corporations; transnational social movements; and individuals. Second, our understanding of instrumental and structural powers must be reconfigured to account for digital information technologies. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, information technologies are now reconstituting actor identities and issues.
Author : Cornelia Woll
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501711490
Firms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they dictate policy on the basis of their material interests. Cornelia Woll counters these assumptions, arguing that firms do not always know what they want. To be sure, firms lobby hard to attain a desired policy once they have defined their goals. Yet material factors are insufficient to account for these preferences. The ways in which firms are embedded in political settings are much more decisive. Woll demonstrates her case by analyzing the surprising evolution of support from large firms for liberalization in telecommunications and international air transport in the United States and Europe. Within less than a decade, former monopolies with important home markets abandoned their earlier calls for subsidies and protectionism and joined competitive multinationals in the demand for global markets. By comparing the complex evolution of firm preferences across sectors and countries, Woll shows that firms may influence policy outcomes, but policies and politics in turn influence business demands. This is particularly true in the European Union, where the constraints of multilevel decision-making encourage firms to pay lip service to liberalization if they want to maintain good working relations with supranational officials. In the United States, firms adjust their sectoral demands to fit the government's agenda. In both contexts, the interaction between government and firm representatives affects not only the strategy but also the content of business lobbying on global trade.
Author : Leslie David Simon
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781930365032
A panoramic view of the Internet's impact on U.S. and global institutions, written from the perspective of the year 2000.