Magazines, cultural policy and globalization: The forced retreat of the state?

This paper argues that developments associated with economic globalization have heightened the challenge of using domestic policy to foster and protec t culture. Two developments associated with economic globalization and inte rnationalization, rapid developments in information technology and the inte rnational trade regime, have rendered ineffective Canada's long-standing po licy instruments designed to protect the industry. Policy discourse has als o changed by bringing into sharp relief two opposing models that address th e role of the state in protecting culture: the global market model and the local culture model. Internationalization has also forced cultural policy c ommunities to work together at the international level.