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. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Jennifer R. Pournelle jpournelle@ucsd.edu Publications Coordinator ph 619-534-1979/fax 619-534-7655 ---------------------------- University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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