Recommended Study Material

Besen, S & Farrell, J. 1991. The Role of the ITU in standardization: pre-eminence, impotence or rubber stamp? Telecommunications Policy 15:311-320.

Castells, M. 1998. Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development. Berkeley: University of California. Paper prepared for the United nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Information Technologies and Social Development, Geneva 22-24 June 1998.

Drake, W. 1988. Watt C-88: restructuring the international telecommunication regulations. Telecommunications Policy 12(3):217-233.

Genschel, P. & Werle, R. 1993. From national hierarchies to international standardization: modal changes in the governance of telecommunications. Journal of Public Policy 13(3):203-225.

Girard, B. 2001. Next-generation radio: communication technologies for democracy and development. Journal of International Communication 7(2):70-75.

Hudson, H. E. 1997. Global connections: international telecommunications infrastructure and policy. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Renaud, J. L. 1990. The rise of the International Telecommunication Union: conflict resolution and the industrialized countries, in The political economy of communication: international and European dimensions, edited by K Dyson & P Humphreys. London: Routledge.

Servaes, J. 2001. Introduction: Participatory communication (research) for social change: old and new challenges. Journal of International Communication 7(2):5-13.

Servaes, J. 2001. Globalisation, Development and `Communication for Localisation=. Journal of International Communication 7(2):5-13.

Sussman, G. & Lent, J. (eds). 1991. Transnational communications: wiring the third world. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

Trebing, H. & Estabrooks, M. 1995. The globalization of telecommunications: a study in the struggle to control markets and technology. Journal of Economic Issues 29(2):535-544.

Tuthill, L. 1996. Users' rights? The multilateral rules on access to telecommunications. Telecommunications Policy 20(2):89-99.

Zacher, M. & Sutton, B.A. 1996. Governing global networks: international regimes for transportation and communications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.