De Gruyter has published a book
on the history of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book focuses on the history
of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the
mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the first international organization ever
and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today.
Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the field of
transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to
digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several
technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio,
television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is
to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic
manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish
the official seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to
contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US
and ICANN).
History of the International
Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for
scholars and students in the fields of telecommunications, media, international
organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of
communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point
in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step
towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of
transnational communications to be written in the future.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Gabriele Balbi, USI,
Università della Svizzera italiana
Andreas Fickers,
University of Luxembourg
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Gabriele Balbi and Andreas
Fickers Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy
1
Part I ITU as a Global Actor in
the History of Telecommunications Marsha Siefert 1 The Russian Empire and the
International Telegraph Union, 1856– 1875 15 Andrea Giuntini 2 ITU, Submarine
Cables and African Colonies, 1850s–1900s 37 Richard R. John 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 55 Christiane Berth 4 ITU, the Development
Debate, and Technical Cooperation in the Global South, 1950–1992 77 Gianluigi
Negro 5 The Rising Role of China in the Promotion of Multilateral Internet
Governance, 1994–2014 107 Dwayne Winseck 6 Is the International
Telecommunication Union Still Relevant in “the Internet Age?” Lessons From the
2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) 135
Part II ITU as an Arena of
Techno-Diplomatic Negotiations for Emerging Technologies Simone Fari 7
Telegraphic Diplomacy From the Origins to the Formative Years of the ITU,
1849–1875 169 Maria Rikitianskaia 8 The International Radiotelegraph Union Over
the Course of World War I, 1912–1927 191 Christian Henrich-Franke and Léonard
Laborie 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 215 Heidi Tworek 10 A Union of
Nations or Administrations? Voting Rights, Representation, and Sovereignty at
the International Telecommunication Union in the 1930s 243 Anne-Katrin Weber,
Roxane Gray, Marie Sandoz, with the collaboration of Adrian Stecher 11 ITU
Exhibitions in Switzerland: Displaying the “Big Family of Telecommunications,”
1960s–1970s 265 Nina Wormbs and Lisa Ruth Rand 12 Techno-Diplomacy of the
Planetary Periphery, 1960s–1970s 297 Valérie Schafer 13 The ITU Facing the
Emergence of the Internet, 1960s–Early 2000s 321 Index 345
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