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 -- 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 -- 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 neoliberal analysis -- Public Sphere, Private Power -- The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security -- Developments in the public sphere?
Summary
An examination of the structures of global power in the post-Cold War period and the implications of this for human security
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index
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