Research Articles

The Wobbly Triangle: Economic Relationships among Europe, Asia, and the U.S. after the Asian Crisis

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

After the Asian Crises: Implications for Global Politics and Economics, 2000
Discussion of the potential conflict among three actors ⎯ Japan, Europe, and the United States ⎯ has been a popular topic among academics, policymakers, and popular commentators.

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Withering APEC? The Search for an Institutional Role

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

International Relations in The Asia-Pacific: New Patterns of Power, Interest and Cooperation, 2000
The Asian crisis that began in 1997 has affected countries throughout the region.

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APEC as an International Institution

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

APEC: Its Challenges and Tasks in the 21st Century, 2000
The creation of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) in 1989 was greeted with a combination of hope and skepticism. Unlike many regions of the world, regional institutions in Asia, and particularly the Asia-Pacific, have been scarce.

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Creating and Modifying Institutions: The Role of Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|

Internationalization, Economic Dependence, and National Security, 2000
The problem of institutional reconciliation, particularly through the nesting of institutions, is likely to become an increasingly important issue in international bargaining.

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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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