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Notes:

(1) Donald Chatfield, "The Information Revolution and the Shaping of a Democratic Global Order," in Neal Reimer (ed.), New Thinking and Developments in International Politics: Opportunities and Dangers (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991, p. 159.

(2) David Hoffman, "Democracy Needs Many Voices," The New York Times, February 1, 2001.

(3) See, generally, www.freedomhouse.org, especially the tables on Freedom in the World Country Ratings, 1972-2000.

(4) For an early assessment of this trend, see Jon B. Alterman, "Transnational Broadcasting and Regionalism," www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall98/Articles1/JA1/ja1.html.

(5) See Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

(6) See www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr.