From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics: Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides. Divina Frau-Meigs, Jeremie Nicey, Michael Palmer, Julia Pohle, and Patricio Tupper, eds. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. 277pp. $40 pbk.The two major global information flow debates, the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), have roots that go back to at least the 1940s and took place in the context of a rapidly changing world that included decolonization, the Cold War, democratization, liberalization, and information revolution. Decolonization led to a number of countries in the developing world gaining independence and a voice in international organiza- tions; the end of the Cold War changed the global power structure; and democratiza- tion and liberalization in several developing countries including those with authoritarian regimes opened up these economies and increased their interactions with other coun- tries. Meanwhile, communication technologies evolved from being analog to going digital.The book From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics: Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides edited by Divina Frau-Meigs et al. attempts to capture the scholarship during the period between the two debates that took place as separate streams and establishes connections between them.The book also serves to record the complex history of the information flow debate over the decades by using four crosscutting concepts: information flows, major actors and their discourses, structures, and divides as the common factors across the three sections of the book-On the Agenda: NWICO, Shifting Sands, and Changing the Agenda: WSIS and the Future.This challenging task has been accomplished with well-researched chapters and essays by authors, many of whom have played a major role in these debates. Chief among them is Mustapha Masmoudi, former information minister of Tunisia, who was responsible for the working papers on the new information order. He served on the MacBride Commission set up by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which submitted a report titled Many Voices, One World.Masmoudi recalls that in 1974 developed nations exported more than 90% of the media content to developing countries, leading to major goals at the twenty-first General Conference of UNESCO in 1980 that included overcoming the imbalance and inequality of the global news flow. In his opinion, despite the information revolution, the international information flow continues to be imbalanced, and the developing countries need to continue to question these imbalances. This view is shared by the authors of the other book chapters.The current imbalance, however, goes beyond the North-South differences, accord- ing to Kaarle Nordentstreng, professor emeritus at Tampere University, Finland, and former consultant at UNESCO. He points out that there are disagreements between the United States and Europe with regard to television program quotas. …