Research Articles

Strategy Without Vision: The U.S. and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Kun-Chin Lin|
APEC: The First Decade, 2002
Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. has pursued a mixed strategy of alternating among or combining unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and global trade negotiations.

Analyzing European Firms’ Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Asia
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Winning in Asia, European Style: Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Success, 2001
Despite recent currency crises, most of the Asia-Pacific economies continue to be among the most attractive markets in the world and now appear to be recovering rapidly.

APEC and Trade Liberalization after Seattle: Transregionalism without a Cause?
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Reforming Economic Systems in Asia: A Comparative Analysis of China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, 2001
The eruption of protests in the streets of Seattle in November 1999 against the Millenium Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) marked the peak of anti-globalization fervor.

Corporate Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Asia: A Conceptual Framework
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Business and Politics, 2001
Despite recent currency crises, most of the Asia-Pacific economies continue to be among the most attractive markets in the world and now appear to be recovering rapidly.

Governance in International Trade: Changing Patterns of Sectoralism, Regionalism, and Globalism
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned, 2001
This chapter examines changing governance patterns in international trade in the post- WW II era, focusing on the efficacy and implications of the use of alternative mechanisms in resolving conflicts.

Lessons from European Strategies in Asia
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Winning in Asia, European Style: Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Success, 2001
Asia has long enticed foreign firms.

Preface
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Business and Politics, 2001
The Asian crises of 1997 dramatically altered the short-term attractiveness of Asian markets.

Negotiation and Bargaining: Organizational Aspects
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001
Negotiation and bargaining is a process in which two or more parties seek a mutual agreement through an
explicit or implicit exchange of views.

Undermining the WTO: The Case Against Open Sectoralism
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| John Ravenhill|
Asia Pacific Issues, 2001
With challenges mounting to the World Trade Organizations agenda of broad-based multilateral trade liberalization, many U.S. trade analysts are arguing for a less ambitious approach.

APEC as an Institution
|By Kun-Chin Lin| Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Assessing APEC’s Progress: Trade, Ecotech, and Institutions, 2001
Over the past decade, APEC’s momentum has waxed and waned with its impact on policymaking and trade liberalisation.

Analyzing NATO Expansion: An Institutional Bargaining Approach
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Contemporary Security Policy, 2000
Unlike most security issues, knowing where one stands on NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) expansion does not help us to easily distinguish between realist and reflectivist views or, for that matter, between hawks and doves.

Exorcising Asian Debt: Lessons from Latin American Rollovers, Workouts, and Writedowns
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Private Capital Flows in the Age of Globalization: The Aftermath of the Asian Crisis, 2000
The Asian crisis has once again raised the issue of how relations between lenders and debtors might be better managed to prevent the recurrence of such problems.