History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) : transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet / edited by Gabriele Balbi and Andreas Fickers.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Balbi, Gabriele, 1979- (Editor)
Fickers, Andreas (Director)
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2020]
Series:Innovation and diplomacy in modern Europe ; volume 1.
Subjects:
International Telecommunication Union > History.
Telecommunication > International cooperation.
International Telecommunication Union.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:vi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: the ITU as actor, arena, and antenna of techno-diplomacy
  • Part I ITU as global actor in the history of telecommunications
  • 1 The Russian Empire and the International Telegraph Union, 1856-1875 / Marsha Siefert
  • 2 ITU, submarine cables and African colonies, 1850s-1900s / Andrea Giuntini
  • 3 When techno-diplomacy failed: Walter S. Rogers, the Universal Electrical Communications Union, and the Limitations of the International Telegraph Union as a global actor in the 1920s / Richard R. John
  • 4 ITU, the development debate, and technical cooperation in the Global South, 1950-1992 / Christiane Berth
  • 5 The rising role of China in the promotion of multilateral internet governance, 1994-2014 / Gianluigi Negro
  • 6 Is the International Telecommunication Union still relevant in "the internet age?" lessons from the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) / Dwayne Winseck
  • Part II ITU as an arena of techno-diplomacy negotiations for emerging technologies
  • 7 Telegraphic diplomacy from the origins to the formative years of the ITU, 1849-1875 / Simone Fari
  • 8 The International Radiotelegraph Union over the course of World War I, 1912-1927 / Maria Rikitianskaia
  • 9 Technology taking over diplomacy? The 'Comité Consultatif International (for) Fernschreiben' (CCIF) and its relationship to the ITU in the early history of telephone standardization, 1923-1947 / Christian Henrich-Franke and Leonard Laborie
  • 10 A union of nations or administrations? voting rights, representation, and sovereignty at the International Telecommunication Union in the 1930s / Heidi Tworek
  • 11 ITU exhibitions in Switzerland: displaying the "Big family of telecommunications," 1960s-1970s / Anne-Katrin Weber, Roxane Gray, Marie Sandoz, with the collaboration of Adrian Stecher
  • 12 Techno-diplomacy of the planetary periphery, 1960s-1970s / Nina Wormbs
  • 13 The ITU facing the emergence of the internet, 1960s-early 2000s / Valerie Schafer.