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The Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media: A Contribution to Transparent and Accountable Governance

Monroe E. Price, Peter Krug

and Humanitarian Assistance Conflict Bureau for Democracy Office of Democracy and Governance USAID (2002), 50 pp.

"We begin with an outline of areas of law that must be considered. Over time, across societies, it is possible to suggest specific areas of legal development that are essential for media law reform. In the first part of this study, we examine a substantial list of such areas, from defamation rules t ... more

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Media Reform: Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State

Monroe E. Price, Beata Rozumilowicz, Stefaan Verhulst (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2002), xii, 283 pp.

"'Media Reform' examines a complex process: the reform of media and its role in promoting democratic practices. Using examples of media from a range of countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa including Uruguay, Poland, China, Indonesia, Jordan and Uganda, Media Reform considers the socia ... more

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Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power

Monroe E. Price

Cambridge: MIT Press (2002), 317 pp.

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Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space
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Mark Thompson, Monroe E. Price (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2002), 408 pp.

"The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other ... more

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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

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Information Intervention: Bosnia, the Dayton Accords, and the Seizure of Broadcasting Transmitters

Monroe E. Price

Cornell International Law Journal, volume 33, issue 1 (2000), pp. 67-112

"The international mission, as U.S. and Western representatives saw it, was to reconstruct a viable multi-ethnic media, as well as to prevent further conflict. NATO was seeking to build, under the Dayton Accords, a plural society out of pieces that seemed fractured beyond repair. The OHR believed th ... more

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Restructuring the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: Four Perspectives. The Experience of Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations. A Background Paper for the UNESCO World Press Day Conference in Geneva

Monroe E. Price (ed.)

Oxford: Cardozo Online Journal of Conflicts Resolution (2000), 56 pp.

"A great deal has now been written about the patterns of media exploitation as they contribute to a vortex of destruction. Less has been elaborated about the efforts of international governmental organisations ("IGOs") and non-governmental organisations ("NGOs") to intervene so as to maintain a more ... more

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Broadcasting Reform in India: Media Law from a Global Perspective

Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst (eds.)

Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press (1998), xiii, 377 pp.