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NOTES
Personal interview with Janice Obuchowski, Freedom Technologies, 3
March 1994, Washington, DC.
2 Frederick Williams, The New Telecommunications, Infrastructure for the
Information Age (New York: Free Press, 1991) pp. 11-12.
3 Interview with Eric Scheck.
4 Herbert I. Schiller in Preston et al., Hope & Folly (Minneapolis: Uni-
versity of Minnesota Press, 1989) p. 301.
5 Robert Cox quoted in Stephen Gill, 'Epistemology, Ontology and the
"Italian School",' in Stephen Gill (ed.), Gramsci, Historical Materialism
and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993) p. 42 (emphases added).
6 See Robert W. Cox, 'The Global Political Economy and Social Choice,'
in Daniel Drache and Meric S. Gertler (eds), The New Era of Global
Competition, State Policy and Market Power (Montreal and Kingston:
MeGill-Queen's University Press, 1991) esp. pp. 337 and 343.
7 Robert W. Cox, Production, Power, and World Order (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1987) p. 2.
8 Ibid.
9 The role of the USTR in representing International Intellectual Property
Alliance interests in US-China software disputes during the mid-1990s
serves as a reminder that the American state will remain the core agent
through which the conditions required for international capital to oper-
ate will be policed and enforced. Suggestions that a diminution of state
power has taken place as a result of internationalization processes also
are challenged in light of the negligible independence of the foreign
communication policy agenCies examined in this book. Conceptualizing
a reduction of state autonomy has little meaning in relation to a state
that has rarely, if ever, enjoyed such autonomy.
10 Robert W. Cox, 'Global Perestroika,' in Ralph Miliband and Leo
Panitch (eds), Socialist Register 1992 (London: Merlin Press, 1992) p. 31.
11 Leo Panitch, 'Globalisation and the State' in Ralph Miliband and Leo
Panitch (eds.), Socialist Register 1994 (London: Merlin Press, 1994),
p. 87.
12 Stephen Gill, 'Gramsci and Global Politics: Towards a Post-Hegemonic
Research Agenda' in Stephen Gill (ed.), Gramsci, Historical Materialism
and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993) pp. 15-17.
13 Leo Panitch, 'Globalization, States, and Left Strategies,' Social Justice,
23 (1-2) (1996) 89.
14 Esteve Morera, 'Gramsci and Democracy,' Canadian Journal of Political
Science, XXIII (1) (March 1990) 24.
15 Kelly Lee, Global Telecommunications Regulation, A Political Economy
Perspective (London: Pinter, 1996) pp. 166--7 and 174.
16 David Bross, DBS: Global Marketplace Analysis (Potomac, Md.:
Phillips Publishing, 1991) p. 8.
17 Edward W. Ploman, 'National Needs in an International Communicat-
ion Setting,' Transnational Data Report, VI (5) (July- August 1983) 277.