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UC San Diego Old Archived Documents Title IGCC 2002 Annual Report Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qg3k8kb Author Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Publication Date 2002 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California iGCC INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IGCCIGCC NEWNEWSSWWiredired AnAn AnnualAnnual ReviewReview 20022002 IGCC Quick Reference Main Office Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093-0518 Telephone: (858) 534-3352 Fax: (858) 534-7655 Director: (858) 534-0348 Development/External Affairs: (858) 534-6429 Publications: (858) 534-1979 Campus Programs: (858) 534-7224 E-mail: Campus Programs: [email protected] Development/External Affairs: [email protected] Publications: [email protected] Washington, D.C., Office 1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 Washington Representative: (202) 974-6295 Fax: (202) 974-6299 URL: http://www-igcc.ucsd.edu/home/ucdc/ Campus Program Offices UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies Michael Watts, (510) 642-1106 UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs Alan Olmstead, (530) 752-2043 UC Irvine Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Wayne Sandholtz, (949) 824-6410 UC Los Angeles Burkle Center for International Relations Geoffrey Garrett, (310) 825-4921 UC Riverside Program on Global Studies Juliann Allison, (909) 787-4582 Christopher Chase-Dunn, (909) 787-2063 UC San Diego Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies Miles Kahler, (858) 822-5295 UC San Francisco Program in Health Science and Human Survival Chris Kiefer (415) 476-7543 UC Santa Barbara Global Peace and Security Program Mark Juergensmeyer, (805) 893-4718 UC Santa Cruz IGCC-UCSC Program Ben Crow, (831) 459-5503 GCC INSTITUTEi ON GLOBAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IGCC web site: http: //www-igcc.ucsd.edu/ Contents Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation From the Director 2 From the IGCC Washington Office 3 What Is IGCC? 4 Research Initiatives 5 International Security Policy 6 Innnovations in International Cooperation 12 International Dimensions of Domestic Conflict 20 and Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy International Environmental Policy 24 Regional Relations 28 Campus Programs 36 Administration 49 Dissemination 50 Management 52 Noteworthy 59 From the Director UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation THE CHALLENGES FACED BY IGCC in the last States, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and year have mirrored our nation’s chal- North Korea. UC scholars lead the discussions. lenges. IGCC has faced some difficult eco- After a long hiatus, North Korea returned to the nomic times while refocusing its efforts on talks just before the news that they had resumed national security policy. their nuclear weapons program. Even as concern The California budget crisis arrived has escalated, North Korea has reaffirmed its desire early for IGCC. Without warning, the to continue informal discussions with U.S. officials. California Legislature eliminated a line While track-two discussions are not a substitute for item in the state budget that provided the other tools of foreign policy, they exist to pro- one-third of IGCC’s core budget. IGCC vide a broader range of options to policymakers. also absorbed the general budget cut of IGCC will continue to sponsor the discussions as Peter F. COWHEY ten percent that was imposed on UC long as the parties deem them to be valuable. research units system-wide. Ironically, In the long term, IGCC believes that global secu- these large losses occurred just as our successful rity and prosperity depend also on sound econom- three-year effort to increase outside funding for ic and environmental policies. This year we have research projects culminated in a $2.9 million award worked especially hard at developing new pro- for a new program, Public Policy and Nuclear grams on environmental questions. The UC Revelle Threats: Training the Next Generation, funded by Program on Climate Science and Policy (UCRP) the National Science Foundation (NSF). recently co-sponsored and hosted the Twentieth The NSF award creates a major new capability Global Change Forum with MIT’s Joint Program on for IGCC. A new generation of practitioners trained the Science and Policy of Global Change. Charles in strategic analysis, nuclear policy, and the role of Kolstad of the Bren School of Environmental arms control will be prepared to replace the nation’s Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara has Cold War generation of analysts and policy leaders. joined IGCC Research Director Jeff Vincent and Lisa IGCC is counting on them to become leaders of the Shaffer, SIO’s director of international relations, in future, particularly in foreign affairs. Schools fund- working on the program. At the same time, Prof. ed under NSF’s Integrative Graduate Education Vincent has been organizing a major new effort on and Research Traineeship (IGERT) agree to under- the management of tropical forests in Southeast take a cultural change by establishing new models Asia, areas critical to the region’s ecology. The for training Ph.D. candidates, ones that provide resource management lessons learned there will be highly collaborative research environments and valuable for a broad range of natural resource and allow experiences for students that transcend tradi- environmental management challenges facing the tional academic and research boundaries. The world. The project will marshall the combined multi-campus, cross-discipline initiative developed resources of the UC system, Harvard University, by IGCC, its UC system-wide affiliates, and its part- and the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM). ners at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore These projects illustrate the range and ambition National Laboratories, where many of the first gen- of IGCC’s programs even in very tough financial eration of nuclear experts were trained, is a premier times. As the state goes, so must the university: We example of the type of project NSF seeks to fund. must manage with fewer resources. As always, we Other IGCC programs are also exploring issues welcome your suggestions for future projects. The fundamental to nuclear security. This report challenges facing our country and the world are too describes several initiatives, but let me focus on just great to let short-term difficulties deter us from con- one. Since 1993 IGCC has organized the Northeast ceiving new long-term strategies. We continue to Asian Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) with the lead through the high level of innovative thought financial support of the U.S. Department of Energy. and painstaking scholarly research the University NEACD is a track-two forum (government and of California is known for. As the university goes, non-government officials discussing matters of so, we hope, go the state and the country. common interest outside the framework of formal diplomacy) that includes officials from the United 2 From the IGCC Washington Office UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation IGCC ESTABLISHED AN OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., internships. The office is instrumental in in 1997 to promote greater interaction between making IGCC’s summer graduate internship University of California faculty and students and program a success by finding awardees Washington policymakers. Its primary mission, to appropriate placements and providing sup- help find and administer policy-oriented interna- port for them while they are in Washington. tional affairs research and education opportunities Since the opening in September 2001 of for UC faculty and students, is facilitated by Joseph the new UC Washington Center, which con- McGhee, IGCC’s Washington Representative. centrates students, faculty, and program offi- IGCC policy seminars and conferences organized cers at a single site, the IGCC office has by the Washington office are an effective means of increased its student outreach activities and getting the results of UC research directly to policy- further integrated its activities with those of Joseph MCGHEE makers and wielders of influence. Participants in UCDC. IGCC sponsored the first public con- these events include representatives from the U.S. ference held in the new building and set up a dozen government, foreign embassies, non-governmental briefings and tours for UCDC undergraduates with organizations (NGOs), international organizations, such organizations as the Organization of American think tanks, foundations, and other universities and States, USAID, the Department of State, the World research organizations. The Washington office also Bank, Amnesty International, the Inter-American uses its contacts in the foreign policy community to Development Bank, the Chinese Embassy, the distribute the published results of UC research on a Mission of the European Union, the Italian broad range of issues with global impact, including Embassy, and the International Monetary Fund. international security, banking and finance, Such efforts have led UC Washington Center civil/ethnic/cross-border conflict, weapons prolif- Director Larry Berman to cite IGCC as the model eration, trade, immigration, and international envi- for other UC research units that wish to set up an ronmental, health, and cultural policy. McGhee’s office in Washington. twenty-plus years of experience in international Events of particular note in 2002 included the affairs enable him to easily assist UC faculty with policy seminar “International Intervention