This volume explores answers to the following questions: what has been the impact of the collapse of the Cold War on communication policymaking in Eastern and Western Europe?; how valid is it to talk about Europe or an increasingly unified European approach to communication policymaking in the new global order of the 1990s?; how far have the recent velvet revolutions led to the development of more democratic communication orders in Eastern and Central Europe?; and what is the role of communication in the construction of more democratic politics and developed economies in contemporary Europe?