1990s Publications

BASC Staff Articles

Goods, Games, and Institutions

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

International Political Science Review, 1999
International institutions can help to overcome the problem of supplying goods that are difficult to restrict in terms of consumption.

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Analyzing Institutional Transformation in the Asia-Pacific

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Asia-Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC, 1998
The development of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) in 1989 has been greeted with a combination of hope and skepticism.

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Institutional Nesting: Lessons and Prospects

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Institutional Designs for a Complex World: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting, 1998
The tension between globalism, regionalism, and sectoralism has continued to challenge both policymakers and analysts.

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Reconciling Multiple Institutions: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting.

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Institutional Designs for a Complex World: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting, 1998
International institutions are rarely created in a vacuum. When new institutions are developed, they often must be reconciled with existing ones.

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The Origin of Games: A Theory of the Formation of Ordinal Preferences and Games

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

Cooperative Models in International Relations Research, 1994
When faced with situations involving strategic interaction, game theory has shown itself to be an invaluable approach to understanding actors’ behavior.

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Cycling Over Berlin: The Deadline and Wall Crises

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George, 1993
This chapter attempts to follow some of Alexander George’s exacting standards in analyzing two crises: the 1958-1959 Berlin Deadline crisis and the 1961 Berlin Wall crisis.

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Cold War Endgames

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Pierre Allan|

The End Of The Cold War: Evaluating Theories Of International Relations, 1992
This text examines some of the main theories of international relations through a single major historical turning point namely the end of the Cold War.

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Building International Institutions in Asia-Pacific

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Asian Survey, 1993
In the view of the ongoing difficulties in concluding the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), both policymakers and scholars have increasingly turned their attention to institutional arrangements in the Asia-Pacific.

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