The Topology of Sovereignty

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Traditional diplomacy is about territory. It works on the assumption that human communities are organized in sovereign nation-states with clearly defined borders. Such diplomacy is much more comfortable with geography than with anything else.

Virtual Tools for Real Diplomacy

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Mark Weiser

I'm very excited to be talking to you because the era of computing that we're starting to get into is about to explode. The next ten years are going to require your expertise, the expertise of diplomacy, of understanding human beings, of understanding human affairs.

Conventional Wisdom about Information Technology

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Frank Fukuyama

When I started to examine the impact of information technology on international relations a few years ago, I was initially attracted to the topic because there was not a lot of conventional wisdom on it. Compared to NATO enlargement, peacekeeping or ethnic conflict, this was a very new topic.

The Enterprise of Diplomacy in the Information Age

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Dennis M. Jauch

Dealing with information technology and the reinvention of businesses and government are central issues throughout the public and private sector today. Changes resulting from information technology range from upgrading telecommunications and computer systems to rethinking completely the nature of enterprises and entire industries.

The Internet, Transnational Networking and Regional Security in South Asia

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Chetan Kumar

Analysts have raised the possibility of increased turbulence in the world system as the flow of information becomes democratized, as information becomes broadly available outside previously narrowly defined areas of expertise, and hence, as hierarchies tumble. Others have focused on the impact on military security of the increasingly sophisticated means available to both rival states, as well as groups that challenge states, for changing and disrupting the flows of information and the informa...

Managing NATO Enlargement

Managing NATO Enlargement

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Lauren Van Metre

On March 5, 1997, the United States Institute of Peace convened the first session of its European Security Working Group to discuss the implications of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) commitment to enlarge the alliance at the July 1997 Summit in Madrid.

Type: Special Report

Police Functions in Peace Operations: Report from a workshop organized by the United States Institute of Peace

Police Functions in Peace Operations: Report from a workshop organized by the United States Institute of Peace

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Roxane D. V. Sismanidis

Much of the current debate on police functions in peace operations is informed by a distinct set of strategic and policy concerns that have acquired special prominence in the 1990s, as these operations have grown increasingly complex because of their deployment in countries whose societies have completely collapsed. The United States Institute of Peace decided to address these issues in view of its ongoing work on the rule of law and other postconflict issues.

Type: Peaceworks

Zaire's Crises of War and Governance

Zaire's Crises of War and Governance

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: David R. Smock

On January 16, 1997, the United States Institute of Peace and the U.S. Department of State cosponsored a one-day roundtable discussion of diplomats, scholars, and nongovernmental organization specialists on the unfolding crises in Zaire-both the complex humanitarian emergency and civil war in eastern Zaire and the ongoing crisis of governmental legitimacy and capacity stemming from a lagging transition to multiparty democracy.

Type: Special Report

Reluctant Neighbor

Reluctant Neighbor

Tuesday, April 1, 1997

By: Henri J. Barkey

The essays in this volume fill an important gap in the literature on Turkey and the Middle East, bringing together the points of view of scholars, journalists, and other observers from the United States, Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East for an unprecedented dialogue on issues of growing importance.

Type: Book