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The following books are suggested readings relating to international communication.

Abshire, D. M. (1976). International broadcasting: A new dimension of western diplomacy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Akwule, R. (1992). Global telecommunications: The technology, administration, and politics. Boston: Focal Press.

Albarran, A. B. (1998). Global media economics: Commercialization, concentration and integration of world media markets. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Albarran, A. B., & Goff, D. H. (Eds.). (2000). Understanding the Web: Social, political, and economic dimensions of the Internet. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Alexander, A., Owers, J., & Carveth, R. (Eds.). (1998). Media economics: Theory and practice (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Alger, D. (1998). Megamedia: How giant corporations dominate mass media, distort competition, and endanger democracy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Allen, D. (Ed.). (1996). Women transforming communications: Global intersections. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Alleyne, M. D. (1995). International power and international communication. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Alleyne, M. D. (1997). News revolution: Political and economic decisions about global information. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Altschull, J. H. (1984). Agents of power. White Plains, N.Y.: Longman.

Bagdikian, B. H. (1997). The media monopoly (5th ed.). New York: Beacon Press.

Barker, C. (1999). Television, globalization and cultural identities. London: Open University Press.

Barnouw, E., & Barnouw, E. (1998). Conglomerates and the media. New York: New Press.

Becker, T. D., Slaton, C. D. (2000). The future of teledemocracy: Visions and theories-Action experiments-Global practices. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Boyd, D. A. (1999). Broadcasting in the Arab world: A survey of the electronic media in the Middle East (3rd ed.). Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

British Broadcasting Corporation. (1982). Voice for the world: The work of the BBC external service. London: BBC.

Browne, D. R. (1999). Electronic media and industrialized nations: A comparative survey. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Browne, R. B., & Fishwick, M. W. (1998). The global village: Dead or alive? Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green Popular Press.

Burns, R. (1998). Television: An international history of the formative years. Edison, NJ: The Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Campbell, R., with Martin, C. R., and Fabos, B. (2000). Media and culture: An introduction to mass communication. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.

Carey, A., & Lohrey, A. (Eds.). (1997). Taking the risk out of democracy: Corporate propaganda versus freedom and liberty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Carruthers, S. L. (2000). The media at war: Communication and conflict in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Cate, F. H. (1997). Privacy in the information age. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Chinoy, M. (2000). China live: People power and the television revolution (updated ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefied.

Chomsky, N. (1991). Deterring Democracy. London: Verso.

Cooper, K. (1942). Barriers down. New York: Farrar & Rinehart.

Cooper-Chen, A., & Kodama, M. (1997). Mass communication in Japan. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Croteau, D., & Hoynes, W. (2001). The business of media: Corporate media and the public interest. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

D'Souza, D. (1996). The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society. New York: Free Press.

DeFleur, M. L., & Ball-Rokeach, S. (1989). Theories of mass communication (5th ed.). New York: Longman.

Derne, S. (2000). Movies, masculinity, and modernity: An ethnography of men's filmgoing in India. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Diamond, L. (1994). Political culture and democracy in developing countries: Textbook edition. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Diehl, P. F. (1997). The politics of global governance: International organizations in an interdependent world. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Ducatel, K. Webster, J., & Herrmann, W. (Eds.). The information society in Europe: Work and life in an age of globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Dutton, W. H. (Ed.). (1996). Information and Communication Technologies. Visions and Realities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ebo, B. (2001). Cyberimperialism? Global relations in the new electronic frontier. Westpot, CT: Praeger.

Emerson, T. I. (1970). The system of freedom of expression. New York: Random House.

Epstein, E. (2000). News from nowhere: Television and the news. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Eugster, E. (1983). Television programming across national boundaries: the EBU and OIRT experience. Artech House.

Fardon, R., & Furniss, G. (Eds.). (2000). African broadcast cultures: Radio in transition. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Featherstone, M. (Ed.). (2000). Global modernities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Flournoy, D., & Stewart, R. (1997). CNN: Making news in the global market. London: University of Luton Press.

Fortner, R. S. (1993). International communication: History, conflict, and control of the global metropolis. Belmont, California: Wadsworth.

Frederick, H. H. (1986a). Cuban-American radio wars. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Frederick, H. H. (1993). Global Communication & International Relations. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Friedland, L. A. (1992). Covering the world: International television news services. New York: 20th Century Fund.

Garnham, N. (1990). Capitalism and communicaiton: Global culture and the economics of information. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

George, J. (1994). Discourse of global politics: A critical (re)introduction to international relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Gerbner, G., Mowlana, H., & Nordenstreng, K. (1993). The global media debate: Its rise, fall and renewal. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.

Gershon, R. A. (1996). The transnational media corporation: Global messages and free market competition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gher, L. A., & Amin, H. Y. (Eds.). (1999). Civic discourse in the Middle East and Digital Age Communications. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Gillett, S. E., & Vogelsang, I. (Eds.). (1999). Competition, regulation, and convergence: Current trends in telecommunications policy research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ginneken, J. V. (1999). Understanding global news: A critical introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Goldstein, R. J. (Ed.). (2000). The war for the public mind: Political censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Gross, P. (1996). Mass media in revolution and national development: The Romanian laboratory. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Gurtov, M. (1999). Global politics in the human interest (4th ed.). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Hachten, W. A. (1992). The world news prism: Changing media of international communication (3rd ed.). Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Hachten, W. A. (1993). The growth of media in the Third World, African failure, Asian successes. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Hafez, K. (Ed.). (1999). Islam and the West in the mass media: Fragmented images in a globalizing world. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Halbert, D. J. (1999). Intellectual property in the information age: The politics of expanding ownership rights. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hamelink, C. J. (1994). The Politics of World Communication. London: Sage.

Hamelink, C. J. (1995). World Communication. London: Zed Books.

Herbert, J. (2000). Practicing global journalism: The effects of globalization and the media convergence. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Hienemann.

Herman, E., McChesney, R. W., & Herman, E. S. (1998). The global media: The missionaries of global capitalism. Herndon, VA: Cassell Academic.

Hill, K. A., & Hughes, J. E. (1998). Cyberpolitics: Citizen activism in the age of the internet. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hilliard, R. L., & Keith, M. C. (1996). Global broadcasting systems. Boston: Focal Press.

Inglehart, R. (1990). Culture shift in advanced industrial society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Jandt, F. E. (1998). Intercultural communication: An introduction (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Johnston, C. B. (1998). Global news access: The impact of new communications technologies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Jones, T.D. (1998). Human rights: group defamation, freedom of expression and the law of nations. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff.

Kamalipour, Y. R, & Mowlana, H. (Eds.). (1994). Mass media in the Middle East: A comprehensive handbook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood.

Kamalipour, Y. R. (Ed.). (1995, 1997). The U.S. media and the Middle East: Image and perception. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood/Praeger.

Kamalipour, Y. R. (Ed.). (1999). Images of the U.S. around the world: A multicultural perspective. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

Kamalipour, Y. R., & Rampal, K.  (Eds.). (2001). Media, sex, violence, and drugs in the global village. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Kamalipour, Y. R., & Carilli, T. (Eds.). (1998). Cultural diversity and the U.S. media. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

Kamalipour, Y. R., & Thierstein, J. P. (Eds.). (2000). Religion, law and freedom: A global perspective. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Kamalipour, Y. R.  (Ed.).  (2002).  Global Communication.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Karim, K. H. (2000). The Islamic peril: Media and global violence. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.

Kennedy, P. (1993). Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books.

Keohane, R. O., & Nye, J. S. (1971). Transnational relations and world politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press.

Ku, C., & Diehl, P. F. (Eds.). (1998). International law: Classic and contemporary readings. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Lai, D. (1997). Global perspectives: International relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the view from abroad. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Ledbetter, J. (1997). Made possible by: The death of public broadcasting in the United States. London: Verso Books.

Lee, C. C. (1980). Media imperialism reconsidered: The homogenizing of television culture. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Lengel, L. B. (Ed.). (1999). Culture and technology in the new Europe: Civic discourse in transformation in post-Socialist nations. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Lent, J. A. (1999). Women and mass communication in the 1990's: An international, annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Lindahl, R. (1978). Broadcasting across borders: A study on the role of propaganda in external broadcasts. Goteborg, Sweden: C. W. K. Gleerup.

Loader, B. D. (Ed.). (1997). The governance of cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Lull, J. (2000). Media, communication, culture: A global approach. Irvington, NY: Columbia University Press.

MacBride Commission. (1980). Many voices, one world: Report by the international commission for the study of communication problems. New York: UNESCO.

Mackenzie, H. (1999). The directory of the armed forces radio service series. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Malek, A., & Kavoori, A. P. (Eds.). (2000). The global dynamics of news: Studies in international news coverage and news agenda. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Mansell, R., & Wehn, U. (1998). Knowledge societies. Information technology for sustainable development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McChesney, R. W. (1999). Rich media, poor democracy: Communication politics in dubious times. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

McChesney, R. W., Wood, E. M., & Foster, J. B. (Eds.). (1998). Capitalism and the information age: The political economy of the global communication revolution. NY: Monthly Review Press.

McLuhan, M., & Powers, B. R. (1992). The global village: Transformation in world life and media in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

McLuhan, M., Fiore, Q., & Agel, J. (1997). War and peace in the global village. New York: Wired Books.

McPhail, T. C. (1987). Electronic colonialism: The future of international broadcasting and communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

McQuail, D. (1992). Media performance: Mass communication and the public interest. London: Sage.

McQuail, D. (2000). McQuail's mass communication theory (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

McWilliams, W. C., & Piotrowski, H. (1997). The world since 1945: A history of international relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Meadows, M. (2001). Voices in the wilderness: Images of aboriginal people in the Australian media. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Melody, W. H. (Ed.). (1997). Telecom reform: Principles, policies and regulatory practices. Lyngby: Technical University of Denmark

Merrill, J. C. (Ed.). (1995). Global journalism: Survey of international communication (3rd ed.). White Plains, NY: Longman.

Mickelson, S. (1983). America's other voice: The story of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. New York: Praeger.

Mittelman, J. H. (Ed.). (1996). Globalization: Critical reflections. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner.

Moore, R. L. (1999). Mass communication law and ethics (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Moore, R. L., Farrar, R. T., & Collins, E. L. (1997). Advertising and public relations law. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mostert, A. (n.d.). A brief history of Radio New York Worldwide. New York: Radio New York Worldwide.

Mowlana, H. (1990). The passing of modernity: Communication and the transformation of society. New York: Longman.

Mowlana, H. (1996). Global media in transition: The end of diversity? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mowlana, H. (1997). Global information and world communication. London: Sage.

Naficy, H. (1993). The making of exile cultures: Iranian television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Nazer, H. M. (1999). Power of a third kind: The Western attempt to colonize the global village. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Neuman, J. (1996). Lights, camera, war: Is media technology driving international politics? New York: St. Martin's Press.

O'Heffernan, P. (1991). Mass media and American foreign policy: Insider perspectives on global journalism and the foreign policy process. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Olson, S. R. (1999). Hollywood planet: Global media and the competitive advantage of narrative transparency. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Over, W. (1999). Human rights in international public sphere: Civic discourse for the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Paraschos, E. E. (1998). Media law and regulation in the European Union: National, transnational and U.S. perspectives. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.

Perry, N. (1998). Hyperreality and global culture. New York: Routledge.

Pettman, R. (1996). Understanding international political economy, with readings for the fatigued. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Price, M. E., & Verhulst, S. G. (Eds.). (1999). Broadcasting reform in India: Media law from a global perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.

Prosser, M. H. (Ed.). (2000). Civic discourse and discourse conflict in Africa. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Prosser, M. H., Sitaram, K. S. (Eds.). (1999). Civic discourse: Intercultural, international, and global media. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Qvist, P. O., & von Bagh, P. (2000). Guide to the cinema of Sweden and Finland. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Ryan, M. P. (1998). Knowledge diplomacy: Global competition and the politics of intellectual property. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Said, E. (1988). Covering Islam: How the media and the expert determine how we see the rest of the world. New York: Pantheon.

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Seib, P. (1997). Headline diplomacy: How news coverage affects foreign policy. London: Praeger.

Semati, M. (Ed.). (2004). New Frontiers in International Communication Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Shapiro, M, J. (1997). Violent cartographies: Mapping cultures of war. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Sparks, C., & Tulloch, J. (Eds.). Tabloid tales: Global debates over media standards. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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