Here are video clips from the Virtual Conference on "Challenges to Global Governance" held with the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the Uppsala University in Sweden. In addition, a video conference on the Japanese economy was held with the International University of Japan on 15 April 1999.

Students who would like to learn more about techniques of video conferencing should register for the one-credit Workshop on Video Conferencing for Global Governance (PSC 600-002), which is offered each spring semester.

We use a PictureTel Concorde 4500 Group Video Conferencing System that delivers full-screen and full-motion video along with high quality audio over three dial-up ISDN lines to and from our town house in Washington.

In the Spring of 2001, we began experiments with the University of Washington and Columbia University using a Litton Network Access Systems CAMVision2 low-latency high-fidelity MPEG-2 codec. Video clips of these experiments can be found on our Maxwell Internet2 Web page.

We are also using a Polycom, which is capable of H.323 video conferencing. On 20 February 2002, we had our first test of IP video conferencing with Waseda University in Tokyo. We tested our Polycoms at both 768 Mbps and 512 Mbps, directly and through a MCU, and we achieved good results.

On 27 March 2002 we had a very successful interactive videoconferece between Maxwell and Waseda students on the topics of Cultural Stereotyping and Multiculturalism. Eight students from Professor Bonham's Workshop on Videoconferncing for Global Governance and six of Professor Nakano's graduate students from Waseda participated in the conference. The Polycom units ran at 512 Mbps: the image quality was excellent and the frame rate was about 15 fps.

We have also had a series of videoconferences on homeland security with the School of Public Administration at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Our Russian colleagues used a Tandberg 880 videoconferencing unit to call the Maxwell School's Polycom ViewStation MP (Model PVS 14xx) at 8:15 AM (New York) and 4:15 PM (Moscow) on 21 November 2002. [The units connected at 768 kbps, but the bandwidth speed dropped to 448 kbps for most of the conference, although it increased to 512 kbps for the last 15 minutes of the 60 minute conference.]

A second videoconference with Moscow State was held on 5 March 2003. Prior to the conference the participants on both sides participated in a discussion forum on homeland security. An analysis of the results was used to structure the discussion in the videoconference. More...

In March 2005 we held a multi-point videoconference on Non-Military Approaches to the War on Terrorism with Sciences Po Paris and MGIMO Moscow.  More...