"Globalisation, global and European co-operation, and national telecommunication policies"

The central question of this paper is the following: To what extent does regional co-operation reinforce or constrain the supposed restrictive effect of globalisation on national policy making freedom, in particular with respect to telecommunications. The central claim of this paper is that the aggregate effect of regional cooperation on the relation between globalisation and national policy making freedom will be a combination of these reinforcing and constraining effects. That is, regional co-operation can have a mix of reinforcing as well as constraining effects, depending on the nature of specific aspects of regional co-operation. These specific aspects of regional co-operation are the following: policy-making, implementation, nestedness in regimes (e.g. WTO), and financial contributions