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Preliminary Material / Patricia K. McCormick and Maury J. Mechanick -- Neo-Liberalism: A Contextual Framework for Assessing the Privatisation of Intergovernmental Satellite Organisations / Patricia K. McCormick -- Inmarsat: In the Forefront of Mobile Satellite Communications / Sagar David and Patricia K. McCormick -- Intelsat: Pre and Post-Private Equity Ownership / Patricia K. McCormick -- The Evolution of EUTELSAT: A Challenge Successfully Met / Christian Roisse -- The Role and Function of Residual International Intergovernmental Satellite Organisations Following Privatisation / Maury J. Mechanick -- Crossing a Rubycon? The International Legal Framework for ISOs – Before and After Privatisation / F.G. von der Dunk -- Notes on Contributors / Patricia K. McCormick and Maury J. Mechanick -- Index / Patricia K. McCormick and Maury J. Mechanick.

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The Transformation of Intergovernmental Satellite Organisations: Policy and Legal Perspectives offers a multifaceted analysis of the complex policy and legal issues associated with the privatisation or restructuring of the world’s preeminent intergovernmental satellite organisations, INTELSAT, INMARSAT and EUTELSAT. Maury Mechanick, Christian Roisse, and David Sagar, each of whom were directly involved in these undertakings, provide a unique perspective on the critical issues involved, while Frans von der Dunk and Patricia McCormick offer a broader contextual assessment of their significance. The contributors’ insights regarding the restructuring of these satellite organisations and the intergovernmental organisations which oversee public services represent valuable reflections on those developments, as well as on changes occurring following privatisation regarding those entities’ ownership profiles and service provisions.