Includes bibliographical references and index ""Contents ""; ""List of Figures and Tables ""; ""Figures ""; ""Tables ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Understanding Human Security ""; ""Human Security and International Relations ""; ""Defining Human Security ""; ""Security and the Study of International Relations ""; ""Global Communication and Human Security ""; ""Global Communication and World Order ""; ""Communication, Human Security and the Public Sphere ""; ""2. Towards a Global Communications Industry ""; ""Global Communication? A Historical Overview ""; ""States and Mass Communications "" ""The Political Economy of Global Communication - Understanding the Transformation of Media Markets """"Technology, Ideology and Social Power in the Political Economy of Communication ""; ""Neoliberal Political Economy ""; ""The Impact of Neoliberal Political Economy - Globalising Tendencies ""; ""A Qualitative Change in Global Communication? ""; ""Global Communications? The Changing Structure of the Communications Industries ""; ""Global Communication and the Changing Structure of Ownership and Control - From Synergy to Oligopoly "" ""Globalisation and the Information Society: an introduction """"Conclusions: Problems for Human Security ""; ""3. Human Security and Global Communication - Into the Twenty-First Century ""; ""Knowledge, Power and Rationality ""; ""Communication Needs and Human Security ""; ""Developments in the Political Economy of Education ""; ""Global Communication, Information and Human Security ""; ""Neoliberal Political Economy - Idealised Brutality ""; ""Conclusions: Obstacles to Human Security The Limits of the Neoliberal Analysis "" ""4. Public Sphere, Private Power - The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security """"Developments in the Public Sphere ""; ""A Neoliberal Utopia? - The Information Society Considered ""; ""Conclusions: The Good Society? ""; ""5. Building the Perfect Beast: The Information Society Revealed ""; ""Democracy against Capitalism? The Neutered State ""; ""Human Security, Autonomy and the Information Society ""; ""Conclusions: Human Security and the Public Sphere in an Age of Information ""; ""6. Global Communication, Human Security and the Challenge to the Public Sphere "" ""Globalisation and Human Security """"Globalisation From Above ( GFA) ""; ""Globalisation From Below ( GFB) ""; ""The Global Public Sphere and Human Security ""; ""Notes ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1 ""; ""Chapter 2 ""; ""Chapter 3 ""; ""Chapter 4 ""; ""Chapter 5 ""; ""Chapter 6 ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""; ""ABC,""; "" 49""; "" 88""; ""abstraction 104""; ""advertising""; "" 105""; "" 106-7""; ""Agence-France Presse 50""; ""Anderson, Benedict 28""; ""anti-systemic movements""; "" 59""; "" 134""; ""AOL-Time Warner""; "" 25""; "" 49""; "" 74""; "" 79"" Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
