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From: jpournelle@ucsd.edu (Jennifer Pournelle)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:25:21 -0500
To: burgess@colorado.edu, pdh@U.WASHINGTON.EDU, kurian@alishaw.ucsb.edu,
Subject: UC IGCC Pointer
Dear Researchers:
System-wide Information about or published by the University of
California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a multicampus
research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence Livermore and Los
Alamos national Laboratories, can now be found at:
gopher://irpsserv26.ucsd.edu
or, for www users, at:
http://irpsbbs.ucsd.edu/igcc/igccmenu.html
ABOUT IGCC
The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation (IGCC) was founded in 1983 as a multicampus research unit
serving the entire University of California (UC) system. The institute=BCs
purpose is to study the causes of international conflict and the
opportunities to resolve it through international cooperation. During
IGCC=BCs first five years, research focused largely on the issue of averting
nuclear war through arms control and confidence-building measures between
the superpowers. Since then the research program has diversified to
encompass several broad areas of inquiry: regional relations, international
environmental policy, international relations theory, and most recently,
the domestic sources of foreign policy.
IGCC serves as a liaison between the academic and policy
communities, injecting fresh ideas into the policy process, establishing
the intellectual foundations for effective policymaking in the post=82Cold
War environment, and providing opportunities and incentives for UC faculty
and students to become involved in international policy debates. Scholars,
researchers, government officials, and journalists from the United States
and abroad participate in all IGCC projects, and IGCC=BCs publications=E3boo=
ks,
policy papers, and a semiannual newsletter=E3are widely distributed to
individuals and institutions around the world.
In addition to projects undertaken by the central office at UC San
Diego, IGCC supports research, instructional programs, and public education
throughout the UC system. The institute receives financial support from the
Regents of the University of California and the state of California, and
has been awarded grants by such foundations as Ford, MacArthur,
Rockefeller, Sloan, W. Alton Jones, Ploughshares, the Carnegie Corporation,
the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, and
The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Susan L. Shirk, a professor in UC San Diego=BCs Graduate School of
International Relations and Pacific Studies and in the Department of
Political Science, was appointed director of IGCC in June 1992 after
serving for a year as acting director. Former directors of the institute
include John Gerard Ruggie (1989=821991), and Herbert F. York (1983=821989),
who now serves as director emeritus.
ABOUT IGCC ON-LINE
The year 1994 saw several critical events in the publishing world:
* Paper costs rose 25%;
*Postal rates rose 10%, effective 1 January 1995;
* Federal Executive emphasis sparked explosive growth in public
availability and use of Internet resources (the so-called =84information
superhighway=BE).
With an ever-increasing demand for information about the Institute and its
products, along with tightening of the California state budget, it was
clear that we needed to expand world-wide access to our publications=E3just
as we needed to hold down publishing costs in the face of rising expenses.
=84On-line=BE publishing was the answer.
In cooperation with the University of California, San Diego Graduate School
for International Relations and Pacific Studies, in December, 1994 IGCC
established a =84Gopher=BE server. Thus, all text-based IGCC materials and
publications (including informational brochures, newsletters, and policy
papers) are now available via the Internet.
This week, IGCC joined the World Wide Web (the multimedia subset of
Internet users), making not only text, but related full-color photographs,
audio- and video clips, maps, graphs, charts, and other multimedia
information available to Internet users world-wide.
Since =84The Web=BE is expanding at a furious pace, with new sites (includin=
g,
most recently, the U.S. Congress) added daily, the net result of our
electronic effort will be (conservatively estimated) to treble circulation
of IGCC materials with no increase in cost=E3and without abandoning printed
mailings to those with no Internet access.
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Jennifer R. Pournelle jpournelle@ucsd.edu
Publications Coordinator ph 619-534-1979/fax 619-534-7655
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University of California
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
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Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu