Research Articles

Lessons from Japanese Firms’ Strategies in Asia

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Winning in Asia, Japanese Style: Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Success, 2002
The regional Asian currency crises of 1997-1998 complicated but failed to diminish foreign firms’ ardor for the region.

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A Leader in Institutional Design? Europe and the Governance of Trade and Monetary Relations

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Europe and Globalization, 2002
In many respects, Europe has been an innovator in the design of international institutions. In trade, Britain led with nineteenth-century unilateral trade liberalization, followed by the Cobden–Chevallier network of bilateral treaties, a customs union in central Europe, and then inward-looking arrangements with colonies.

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Goods, Games, and Institutions: Response to Wallner

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

International Political Science Review,2002
In our article “Goods, Games, and Institutions,” published in this journal (Aggarwal and Dupont, 1999), we emphasized the need to improve our understanding of the underlying conditions within which institutions might promote cooperation among states and other international actors.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Preface

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Business and Politics, 2001
The Asian crises of 1997 dramatically altered the short-term attractiveness of Asian markets.

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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.

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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.

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