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"March 1985." ; Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche ; At head of title: 99th Congress, 1st session. Committee print ; Includes bibliographical references ; Mode of access: Internet.

Gbenga Oduntan analyzes the current state of law and practice of space activities as they relate to private enterprise, highlighting the need for national and international reform to better align international systems. The article traces the increasing scope of law relevant to private enterprise in space and advises directions in which it can evolve.

Major General James Armor Jr., Director of the National Security Space Office, throws some light on the space policies of the government and their relation to commercialization of space, which he says sustains the military industrial base. In his experience, the military prefers to buy the most advanced systems that technology has to offer even though government has unpredictable needs. He acknowledges "There is a significant gap between what is said at policy level and what has been done. As a result, the credibility of government action is fading." Major challenges include finding ways to initiate discussions on space control, developing long-term leadership and management, affirmative action, increased budget to serve infrastructural needs and improved international cooperation. He says players can and should demand a secure commercial environment.

The 20th century brought the most horrific weapons and most devastating wars in the history of human civilization. It also gave us the most breathtaking discoveries and technological breakthroughs, including the opening up of outer space to human reach. The commercialization of outer space is one of the most significant developments of our time, giving us an opportunity to put the richness of this medium to the betterment of human conditions on Earth on an increasingly widening scale. Technological advances have also made space more important militarily. A puzzle now is whether the commercialization of outer space facilitates international cooperation in the security realm or makes interstate relations more competitive in the fourth medium. This study tries to address the issue of outer space security by placing it within the realist-liberal debate on economic interdependence and international conflict and cooperation. It shows that as the post-Cold War transition era drew to its close, security interests of the United States, on the one hand, and Russia and China, on the other, continued to diverge with regard to space security. The sole international intergovernmental organization charged with the negotiations on space security issues failed to bridge the differences and bring about compromises among the major space players. As a result, a new space security regime regulating expanding military uses of space has not emerged. Liberal expectations fail on two important accounts. Firstly, the cost-benefit analysis that lies in the heart of the argument of liberal pacification consists of the costs of fighting a war as well as the opportunity costs of war and the former has not necessarily increased with technological progress and, even with greater commercialization of outer space, the latter may not necessarily offset the trend in the former. Secondly, the liberal expectation that expanding commercial relations between states would gradually lead to progressive de-legitimization of the use force has so far failed to materialize with respect to outer space.

The purpose of the study. The current state and tendencies of Ukrainian media development under the conditions of business realities are considered. The Ukrainian media market under the influence of commercialization is analyzed. Methodology. In the proposed publication, a system-analytical approach to determining the development trend of the Ukrainian media in the context of business realities is applied, namely, with the help of special methods and techniques, the current Ukrainian television is characterized in terms of commercialization. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that, perhaps for the first time, the commercialization of the media was considered as a factor in the formation of the channel's information policy, its content; and as a result, influence on the formation of public opinion. The basic laws of the influence of business realities on the functioning, information policy and content of Ukrainian media have been clarified. The commercial component of modern media in the process of creating media content and the limits of respecting democratic principles of speech have been illuminated. The main priorities and strategies of the modern television product and detailed the genre-style palette of the media industry of Ukraine have been identified. Conclusions. Despite the fact that the leading social and political media are owned by the state or they are influenced by a small number of financial-industrial groups that are dependent on the government. Most of the media are engaged, do not deliver complete and objective information about politicians and significant political events, do not provide a communication dialogue between the people and the authorities, but are a tool for marginalizing and controlling the masses in the arms of power.