International Communication in the 1990s: Implications for the Third World

For thirty years now Third World nations have been central parties to the global debate on the vital issue of international communication. Supported by the former Soviet Union, they had called for a New World Information and Communication Order in which the negative effects of Western dominance of the international communication scene would be alleviated. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reinvigoration of the United Nations, Muhammad Ayish argues that international communication is likely to remain on the agenda of world debates in the 1990s, but it will befar less ideological and more pragmatic