The birth of a new economic sector: The challenge to America -- From scarcity to abundance -- Dynamics within the U.S. communications and information resources sector -- Communications and information dynamics within general U.S. industry -- The world picks up the economic challenge -- Regulatory activities in communications and information competition -- The changing role of the media in international affairs -- Specific international problem areas: Free flow forever vs. objective and balanced news -- Transborder data flow (TBDF) restrictions -- dividing up the spectrum -- expanding international satellite capabilities and two controversial activities -- Communications and information resources in development -- Electronic security and defense systems -- Arms control and the role of communications and information in peacekeeping -- The widening role of electronic codes, message interception, and message protection -- One bilateral relationship: U.S. advanced country communications and information relationships -- U.S. communist country communications and information relationships -- U.S. developing country communications and information relationships -- Eighteen points for formulating policy: The international policy enviroment of communications and information resources -- Communications and ifnormation in the late 1980s: The big changes -- The power shifts -- The action goes global -- Shifts in international telecommunications -- The rise in importance of the services sector -- Recent changes in the conduct of warfare -- Communications and information-future policy issues

1. Telecommunication
2. Communication and Technology