Barry B. Hughes <bhughes@du.edu>
Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld <jwilkenf@bss2.umd.edu>
Professor Leopoldo Schapira (Fax: +54-51-241921)
Prof. Jose Brenes Andre <jbrenes@cariari.ucr.ac.cr>
Dear Prof. Hughes:
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(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) and your book
International Futures" which I received
yesterday.
Your global model on CD-ROM works all right with Virtual PC on my Mac/G3 desktop.
I will study your book with the model closely with great interest.
Thank you very much again.
(2) Jonathan once told me that he was a graduate student under
Professor Bob
Noel of the University of California, Santa
Barbara when I conducted our
global gaming with him. He successfully
expanded it to his ICON program.
I mentioned of
this global gaming event in my previous
distribution
DRAFT/Global Peace Gaming for S3 in SIMULATION - May
6, 2000" which
you can now find at;
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.
(3) Leopoldo Shapira then extended the ICON to his Argentina and
Latin
American countries for his drug trafficking
gaming project.
Jose Brenes in Costa Rica was one of its participants.
Jose is now in charge of the Global University System in Central America project.
(4) I found my long-standing acquaintances and friends in the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of your book, e.g., Mihajlo
Mesarovic (I visited him --
probably while you were with him at Case Western
University), John
Richardson, Gerald Barney, Richard Chadwick,
etc.
The globe is now certainly getting smaller!!
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:01:50 -0600
From: Barry Hughes <bhughes@du.edu>
Subject: International Futures
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Dear Tak Utsumi,
Thank you for looking at my web site and for your positive comments
about what you found there. I will send you a copy of my book
with the
third edition of the model. Unfortunately, however, it only runs
on
Wintel machines, not Macs.
Although I do try to use data-based estimations as much as possible,
the
basic structure of the model would be more systems dynamics than
econometric. It is really a hybrid structure attempting to use
both
theory and data. It is not currently set up, however, for use
on the
web and therefore for use by multiple "players" at the same time.
You appear more interested in simulation than gaming, but if you are
not
aware of it, there is a project at the University of Maryland (Professor
Jonathan Wilkenfeld) that sets up interactive international negotiation
gaming for students in countries around the world. They have
been doing
it for many years and are very good. The project name is ICONS
and they
published a book with Westview in the last few months.
Regards,
Barry Hughes
--
Barry B. Hughes bhughes@du.edu
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (303) 871-2706
University of Denver (303) 871-4566 (FAX)
Denver, CO 80208 http://www.du.edu/~bhughes/index.html
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List of Distribution
Barry B. Hughes
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies
Professor of International Relations
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Denver
2199 University Blvd.
Denver, Colorado 80208
303-871-2706
Fax: (303) 871-4566
bhughes@du.edu
http://www.du.edu/~bhughes/index.html
Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Director
Project ICONS
International Communication of Negotiation with Simulation
(ICONS)
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dep't of Government and Politics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-4160 (direct)
301-405-4156 (department)
jwilkenf@bss2.umd.edu
Professor Leopoldo Schapira
University of Cordoba
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Avda Olmos 15 Piso 1B
5000 Cordoba
ARGENTINA
Tel: +54-51-226114
Fax: +54-51-241921
Prof. Jose Brenes Andre
President of Consta Rica Fulbright Association
Escuela de Fisica
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Pedro
COSTA RICA
Tel: +506-207-5019
Fax: +506-225-5511
jbrenes@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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