This paper situates the international satellite industry within three lines of contemporary geographic thought. Second, it reviews the industry's Cold War origins. Third, it explains changing international regulatory structures of satellites, particularly Intelsat, which control access to and...

The 1990s witnessed an enormous wave of mergers and acquisitions dramatically reconfigure the market structure of global telecommunications. In Europe and the U.S., telecommunications firms have steadily consolidated into a shrinking pool of providers, rapidly oligopolizing the industry. This...

Despite stereotypes that cyberspace spells the 'end of geography' and promises universal, democratic entree to the electronic highways of the world economy, access to the Internet is highly unevenly distributed both socially and spatially. In this paper I examine the geopolitics of Internet...

Stock markets in the United States experienced a surge of growth throughout the 1990s as an expanding national economy, deregulation, and demographic change produced the longest bull run in history. This paper explores the reasons for this boom. Next, it charts rising employment in securities...

The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement initiated in 1989 will remove most of the remaining barriers to trade and will have substantial impacts on regional economies in both nations. The economic effects of this Free Trade Agreement are analyzed using a three-stage approach. First, the origin...