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Title	Vol. 22 No. 2 Pacific Studies
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Publisher Original	Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus
Date Original	1999-06
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus
Date Digital	2003-05
Subject	Pacific Area--Periodicals Oceania--Periodicals
Genre	Periodicals
Citation	Pacific Studies, Vol. 22 No. 2 (June 1999)
Language	English; eng; en
Collection	Pacific Studies Scholarly Periodicals
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
Patron Usage Instructions	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html
Copyright Status/Owner	Copyright 1999, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
System Requirements	Internet Connectivity. Worldwide Web Browser. Adobe Acrobat reader
Type	Text
Format	text/pdf
Identifier	Vol. 22 No. 2 Pacific Studies

Title	Globalization, Stateless Capitalism, and the International Political Economy of Tonga's Satellite Venture
Author	Van Fossen, Anthony B.
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Publisher Original	Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus
Date Original	1999-06
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus
Date Digital	2003-03
Abstract	Globalization has led some Pacific Islands countries into ventures that use their sovereignty to advance private interests against regulation by metropolitan states. Tongasat, Tonga's innovative satellite enterprise, is one such recent initiative in "stateless" capitalism that has deep structural similarities with flags of convenience and offshore tax havens. The microstate has claimed a disproportionate percentage of geostationary slots and succeeded in filling a number of them. Tongasat's emergence is analyzed in terms of the contemporary world-system, declining U.S. hegemony over the global satellite regime (creating opportunities for independent entrepreneurs), and the end of the cold war (making inexpensive Russian satellites available for commercial uses in Tonga's slots). Tonga's satellite venture has benefited members of the ruling elite but made few contributions to the country's internal development. Tongasat has been at the vanguard of moves toward privatization, deregulation, congestion, and conflictual competition in outer space.
Physical Description	26 p.
Subject	Oceania Globalization Tonga Economics--Moral and ethical aspects
Genre	Articles
Citation	Pacific Studies Vol. 22 No. 2 (June 1999) p.1-26
Language	English; eng; en
Collection	Pacific Studies Scholarly Periodicals
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
Patron Usage Instructions	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html
Copyright Status/Owner	Copyright 1999, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
System Requirements	Internet Connectivity. Worldwide Web Browser. Adobe Acrobat reader
Type	Text
Format	text/pdf

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