HUGHES, Patrick <br/><br/>
'Can governments weather the Storm in the New communications climate?' 

 - Oxford :  Blacwell Publishers Limited,  December 1997 
<br/><br/> Government policies of privatisation, contracting-out and de-regulation have been major driving forces of globalisation in and through the communications industry. Ironically, however, globalism makes it increasingly difficult for national and state governments to influence the communications industry at national and state levels respectively. This article argues that globalism challenges governments to manage and develop their own communications systems and activities in ways which counter some of the major features of globalism in the communications industry. The article advocates rolling communications strategies at state andfederal levels and outlines ways in which such strategies could develop